Happy New Year from Seattle

12/23/17 Wedgwood neighborhood

On one of the last dry, sunny days of 2017 (the next day it snowed, followed by many consecutive days of rain), I drove a little further east than I usually go in the Wedgwood neighborhood and parked at the crest of a hill. I looked out past the end of the street and realized I could see Lake Washington (that bit of blue) and the Cascades beyond it. Although I wasn’t thinking about it at the time, this little sketch – conifers, the mountains, the lake – is about as quintessential Seattle and Pacific Northwest as I can get in one composition.