Fall color at Seattle’s Japanese Garden

a backside view of the Japanese maple that greets you upon entry to the garden — what a specimen Somehow I’ve never made it to the Seattle Japanese Garden before — I’ve been to the free Kubota Garden in South Seattle many a time (and highly recommend it), but never got around to the paid one. I finally decided to go for my birthday this year. After a leisurely breakfast, we cruised over the floating bridge into Seattle. To our southeast, Tahoma Mount Rainier was crisp against an amber sky, a lenticular cloud gleaming over the peak. On a weekend morning, we were across the bridge in fifteen minutes! (We should go to Seattle more often 😂) the mountain is out As we wound through the arboretum access road, every parking area looked full, so I doubted we’d find a spot at the small entrance lot — but just as we approached the second-closest parking lot, I saw a car pulling out 🙌 We snagged their spot and walked the quarter mile through the arboretum to the entrance. Being me, I spent the…