Harvey and Marion Losh have lived in Blue Ridge, in this home, for the past 50 years. One day she jokingly asked him to paint the house pink to match the car and he did, much to her surprise. Now they paint their cars to match the house.

In the late afternoon, a Burlington Northern Railroad train winds its way along Puget Sound, with Blue Ridge in the background.

The Burlington Northern tracks wind around Blue Ridge, south past North Beach and into Seattle.

Doug Dunham teaches Cara Peterson, 9, how to block during practice for the Loyal Heights Reign, a Seattle parks basketball league team for girls ages 8-9. Dunham helped to get the racial exclusion law off the books of the Blue Ridge by-laws.

Patrick Sullivan, 11, cleans out the garage in his family's home in Blue Ridge.

Kevin Sullivan stands outside his home, known in the neighborhood as one of the "castles," a strip of beautiful brick homes built in the 1930s for Boeing executives.

Fallon Sullivan, 7, hangs around whiler her sister plays basketball at North Beach Elementary School.

Clyde Sherman, who has lived in Blue Ridge for 25 years with his wife Norma, washes the windows on his home. The Shermans never tire of the Puget Sound view those clean windows afford them.

Jon Beahm has owned Blue Ridge Realty for the past nine years. The office has been a fixture in the neighborhood since 1932.

Barry Foster and Casandra Vaivadas run the Festivities Cafe. They make delicious breads and desserts, but soups are a specialty.

A puppy wanders through the spray from a sprinkler watering one of Blue Ridge's manicured lawns.