Route 62 (and Spring Green)

4/8/26 Green Lake neighborhood

With Link light rail so convenient, I rarely take Metro anymore, but certain destinations are better reached by bus. I catch route No. 62 from this Green Lake stop. I’ve waited at this stop many, many times, yet I had never noticed the decorative lamp post until I made this sketch. I guess I’m always looking in the opposite direction in anticipation of the bus’s arrival. (How often has that happened to you? It happens to me regularly: I don’t see it until I sketch it.) Just as I was finishing, a 62 bus approached and fit right into my composition.

Color notes: A friend and I enjoy discussing the particular shade of green that trees begin to take on at this time of year. Tiny, tender leaves shimmer with a luminous, nearly neon yellow-green. In this post from a few years ago, I mentioned the various names pencil manufacturers have come up with to describe this fleeting hue.

Given my current obsession with Caran d’Ache Neocolor II water-soluble crayons, I picked out Spring Green (470) from the crayon line, a color I have also used in its Museum Aquarelle pencil form during previous springs.