Usually freeways drag you down.
It's not the gridlock that takes a toll on Laurie Freitag, a Studio City-based photographer. She ruminates while driving. Thinking of her estranged family sends her into a funk.
That's until she drives the 101 Freeway through Hollywood. Two magenta bougainvillea bushes flow over the top of a roughly 30-foot retaining wall across from the Capitol Records building, their vines taking the shape of a giant heart.