Back in the Olympic Hills neighborhood to walk some streets I had missed, I started near the Lake City Fire Station. I had noted this sculpture before but not the nearby plaque explaining that this piece called Thornton Creek "... stands as a monument to our ancient and vital community creek and watershed. The sculpture lifts swaths of native creek grass above the urban hardscape and to the daylight. Steel pipe is 'peeled' open to catch the rain and carry it to an underground cistern. The sculpture speaks to the urgency of a balanced ecology and an architecture of service."

This path at 133rd and 28th allowed me to walk where cars cannot go.

Venturing into Victory Heights, Hiram Place became a private road that took me to ...

... Virgil Flaim Park which had ...

... a working water fountain (the water was cool and refreshing) and ...

... a plaque on a rock noting that the Lake City Playground was donated by the Lake City Lions.

Over on 30th just south of 125th, I spotted some well-tended planter boxes and ...

... decorated utility boxes.


Out on Lake City Way, I found a plaque explaining the Coffee Pot Pergola sculpture. It says: "Celebrating Lake City's diverssity of cultures, Coffee Pot Pergola recognizes the ritual of drinking hot beverages as a universally popular social activity that brings people together. The curvilinear, branching structure recalls the natural beauty of plants and streams in the area, and curved automobile fins and fenders from past decades.
The phrases "Let's have coffee" and "Let's have tea" appear, in many languages, on the ground and surrounding benches.

The nearby Dick's was congratulating graduates.

Back on 125th, the old Lake City School has been converted to professional offices.

A utility box in front of that building honors all the neighborhoods that make up Lake City.





 

Along this 4 mile walk, I passed Little Free Libraries and landmarks I had passed before but also passed the Lake City Library, the Lake City Community Center (which is closed due to fire damage),  Lamb of God Lutheran Church and Preschool (I heard that the church is hosting the lunches that the Community Center had been providing) and one new Little Free Library. It contained an autobiography of a basketball player, a Harry Potter novel, and a crime fiction.

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