One of my favorite trees

Here's a sketch of one of my favorite trees in the park. It's the bulbous one just west of Veteran's Plaza that shelters the picnic tables there. Just what a tree in a park ought to offer -- haven, coolness, shade.

Music group on the Greensward

Here's a sketch I did one weekend on the Greensward of people hanging out and enjoying the park. Someone recently said to me that all spring she'd gone to the Greensward and been depressed and anxious about the proposed retention basin and that now she can go and just be happy. That's exactly how I felt too when the plan was scrapped. I'm hoping to spend many hours over many years to come out celebrating on a blanket with the rest of Midtown.