As promised, here are some cool links involving the initial and ongoing parks development in the early 1900s, along with a beautiful network of boulevards linking them all up.

http://www.seattle.gov/PARKS/parkspaces/olmsted.htm
Seattle Park History-Olmsted Parks-note links at bottom when you open, showing all olmsted parks in seattle and olmsted boulevards, wow!

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/115316_profile02.shtml
A really interesting article about John Olmsted. A very gifted and driven guy, and here is an excerpt-

John Olmsted was both the nephew and stepson of the pioneer landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. His uncle married his mother and adopted him at a young age after his father died.

He graduated from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and studied architecture in London, according to the National Association for Olmsted Parks.

City leaders had been hoping to lure the founder's namesake, Frederick Olmsted Jr., but he was busy lecturing at Harvard and couldn't make the trip. Some say it was a lucky break for Seattle, since John Olmsted was really the more talented of the two men. A hard worker with a keen mind, he brought the Olmsted firm into the 20th century, organizing its billing and filing systems.

http://www.seattle.gov/friendsofolmstedparks/  
Pretty self-explanatory and there's an event in July that looks pretty interesting. I'm guessing I can contact this group as a starting point to find out about early park tree history and other trivia.

http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/transportation/heritagetree.htm

Info on Seattles Heritage Tree Program, a listing of notable trees based off of their size, example as a specimen, bit of history surrounding it/them, and listing of where they are at, whether in park, commercial space, or residential. If you have a tree you think should be listed here, click the link on their page to submit your own application. I've seen a lot of trees out in the city that are not listed in this program that are equally beautiful, bigger, etc. It is a relatively new program so I'm not saying there are trees in it that don't deserve it, and what a great program.

That's it for this days blog, oh, but lets have a tree of the day pic to close it out. These are some Coastal Redwoods in a little grove in Lincoln Park in West Seattle. There are about 25 trees in this grove and there are a couple that are among the widest/tallest I've seen in Seattle. Ill devote many days blogs to trees I've ran across in Lincoln Park I'm sure. Its my home park as I live a few blocks away and my favorite park in Seattle overall. Hit the beach on the first part of a walk and then walk back through the woods full of old-growth trees everywhere.