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  4/28/26 Maple Leaf neighborhood I was just finishing lunch when the floors and windows suddenly started shaking: A jackhammer was ripping ...

8/3/25 7:20 p.m., Maple Leaf neighborhood This sketch probably looks like many others I’ve made, with one exception: It was 7:20 p.m. on a S...

  6/27 - 7/4/24 Maple Leaf neighborhood A year ago, a huge utility project began in the ‘hood, and it took nearly that long to finish as it...

1/14/24 The Brothers, Olympic Mountains With the deep freeze we had a couple of weeks ago and the more recent “atmospheric rivers,” my daily...

1/4/24 Utility work outside Macrina Bakery, Maple Leaf neighborhood   The utility project I sketched in September is still going on in my i...

9/15/23 Seattle City Light workers, Maple Leaf neighborhood While all the natural gas action was happening on the street , another kind of w...

  9/12/23 Maple Leaf neighborhood We received notification a few weeks ago that our natural gas utility would be doing some major infrastruc...

7/31/23 Maple Leaf neighborhood My walk yesterday was rewarded with action in the ‘hood. First, I could see from a distance that something b...

3/28/23 Across the street, Maple Leaf neighborhood Ever since last August when the Honey Bucket arrived , the remodel at the house across th...

  10/4/22 Across the street My patience finally paid off. Almost two months ago when a Honey Bucket appeared across the street , I was certa...

  5/24/22 Maple Leaf neighborhood Heading out into the neighborhood to make some composition studies, I passed this excavator, but it was on...

  4/5/22 Maple Leaf neighborhood Seems like it’s been a long time since I sketched any heavy equipment. Distracted the past few weeks by pin...

11/8/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood Getting out for a walk has been difficult these days (and weeks). The rain is bad enough (and I don’t mean d...

7/27/21 Cadman in Renton Our mini sketch outing! First Kathleen , then Alice , and now Kate : My best concrete mixer sketching opportunities...

  6/15/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood This is my final week in Kathleen Moore’s class in drawing nature with colored pencils . I am overjoyed th...

  5/31/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood Like trains and ferries, this excavator can take care of business from either end without turning around. ...

  3/17/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood Excavators are back on the property I sketched a couple of weeks ago where a big landscaping project is u...

  2/18/21 Maple Leaf neighborhood We’d seen this excavator, quietly waiting for some action, several times on our walks through the ‘hood, b...

  2/8/21 Northgate neighborhood We all knew I wouldn’t last long with the few colors I gave myself in my ultra-minimalist kit (in fact, I w...

  A new function for an old-school icon: the Bic 4-Color 3+1 I seem to have come full circle. Several years ago when I had been dabbling i...