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| 8/18/19 Space Needle and sunflowers |
UpGarden is aptly named: It’s the highest p-patch in
Seattle. Noted as the nation’s first rooftop community garden, it opened on the
top level of the Seattle Center parking garage in 2012. Now thriving and filled
with flowers, fruits and vegetables, the garden is a welcome spot of green in
the shadow of the Space Needle. USk Seattle has been meaning to meet there for
quite a while, and it finally landed on our calendar yesterday.
I took a leisurely stroll around the garden and noted
several fun potential sketches: the Airstream trailer (filled with gardening
tools) in front of a crane; corn stalks with the Queen Anne towers behind them;
a vintage Ford Galaxy 500 filled with plants. The hard part was choosing!
Although the sunflowers were past their prime, I didn’t mind: I liked the
composition of the tall plant’s heart-shaped leaves in front of the Needle.
The first time I sketch again with USk Seattle after I’ve been
traveling, I’m always filled with joy and gratitude for my community here at
home. I’m fortunate to be able to travel and sketch with people from around the
world, but it’s when I do that I am reminded not to take my homies for granted.
Many sketchers don’t belong to a local group, so the symposium is their only
opportunity to be with like-minded folks. I’m much luckier than that; I can do it
several times a month.
Driving home with the top down on the Express Lanes, it was
73 degrees and clear. This is, unarguably, the best time of year to be here. I
don’t want to be anywhere else.
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| A purple Ford Galaxy 500 filled with plants |
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| Good to be back with my homies! |
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