It was pretty cold as a book-loving friend and I went to Mid Beacon Hill to revisit
Comet Lodge Cemetery and inspect the tombstones. I am still impressed by the stones that look like tree trunks. I noted that quite a few people were buried here between 1906 and 1908.
Our 5.6 mile walk took us east of Beacon Avenue into a mostly residential area bisected by
Chief Sealth Trail and large transmission towers.
This is an area of modest homes, occasional views of the Cascade Mountains and Lake Washington and churches.
We passed
Saint Mark's Lutheran Church,
Seattle Chinese Alliance Church,
Church of Christ
and
Bethany United Church of Christ
whose cornerstone reads "
Olivet Congregational Church 1907-1950 and which appears to be home to the Beacon Avenue Food Bank, the
Refugee Women's Alliance and
Step Ahead Preschool.
The biggest surprise of this walk was the Khmer Buddhist Society which has a library located in its religious facility
and a statue of Buddha at the highest point on its property.
This area is home to
Dearborn Park Elementary School.
This was another wonderful made even more enjoyable by book discussions.
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