Blue day for blue spruces next to Capitol
(Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives) Like sentries silently standing guard for decades, they’ve flanked the north stairs leading up to the Legislative Building, mostly unnoticed by the employees and tourists walking past them. But the two blue spruces on the north side of the Capitol soon will be no more, victims of last January’s ice storm that wiped out so many trees in the Puget Sound region. The Department of Enterprise Services announced that a contractor on Saturday will…