"26 Apr 13.  One more of the cherry blossoms before they paint the ground pink for another year. Now growing up in the SW area of Lake Washington in the 50s and 60s meant that you spent a fair amount of time in either Seward Park or the shoreline nearby. At the time we were in high school there was a loop road around the perimeter of the park that closely followed the shoreline. There were also plenty of intersecting roads that took you through different areas of the park as well as many pullouts. The official speed was 25 MPH, and in fact you could drive that speed, but only on weekdays and bad weather weekends during the school year. The rest of the time it was cruis'n space for every red blooded guy and gal. If you were lucky, you might hit the loop on a summer day when the speed was greater than 3 MPH, but that would have been a rare day. Showing off your wheels and girl was the primo event of every nice day, and it would be hard to say what got top billing, the wheels or the girls in them. A fun time for all, and a great time to grow up. The shoreline would be packed with cars and teenagers in them nightly to watch the ""submarine races"", and to be sure, more than a few ""tricycle motors"" got their start from such activity. But it  was great fun, and a time when life was far more light hearted. A time of Elvis, the Everely Brothers, and the Beach Boys. And muscle cars!!! Tim Allen kind of power! Now the loop road is gone, and all that remains is one short leg you can traverse in just a few minutes. So to all the great musical biggies, the muscle cars, and the good make out areas, now gated with cyclone fences and physically locked. You can of course still go see the beautiful trees, but the fun stuff is, I'm afraid, gone forever.  Nikon D300s; 18 - 200; Aperture Priority; 1/160 sec @ f /13."
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