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| 8/28/25 Eastlake |
For our play date last week, Mary Jean led Roy and me around
the Eastlake area of Lake Union, which neither of us were familiar with. It’s
the grittier side of the lake, where I discovered the old Lake Union Drydock
Co. (established in 1919) and sketched St. Mark’s Cathedral way above us on
Capitol Hill. Every time I drive south on Interstate 5, I see the smokestacks
of the former Lake Union Steam Plant, now occupied by the Fred Hutch Cancer
Center, but I had never been in a spot where I could sketch them. It was also
fun to sketch working boats and a Seattle Seaplane.
We walked and explored quite a ways on the foot/bike path along the lake. It’s my favorite kind of urban sketching: Covering a large area, discovering new views or familiar ones that are otherwise hard to sketch, and stopping whenever something caught our eyes.
