by Jas Keimig
On a recent summer evening, a group of about a dozen people stood in the Lakewood Triangle – a pocket park in Mount Baker – taking in the well-to-do neighborhood. The group was half an hour into a walking tour of the area, surrounded by the trappings of luxury: fancy cars parked in driveways; Tudor-style red brick homes facing a placid Lake Washington; and quiet streets occasionally disturbed by an overhead plane or an errant jogger. A sense of calm settled around the million-dollar homes and well-maintained avenues as bees slept on lavender spikes.