Threading the Needle

 

5/1/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood

Often when I sketch from my car, I’m frustrated because I know a better view could be had if I felt safe enough standing on a narrow sidewalk (or if it weren’t raining and I could get out). This view, however, was the other way around: From walking by many times, I knew that the view I wanted would be from a parked car.

Driving home from an errand Saturday morning, I saw that the ideal parking spot was available: A perfect needle-eye view of the utility poles and their wires threading through this tree.