Surprising view at Sunset Hill Park

A glimpse of the Olympics this morning convinced me to cycle out of my way to check out the view at Sunset Hill Park. (OK, don’t give me grief about the low quality, what can you expect from a 2mp camera phone?)

Such untarnished beauty is always a pure moment of Zen.
Then I turned around and saw this:

Hey, graffiti is something you’re going to see occasionally, but this really surprised me. Does it seem like there’s more graffiti lately? What gives?

Update: Don’t know if this is related, but according to this story, graffiti is on the rise in West Seattle and the people doing it there have been known to tag in Ballard too.