Trenholme park has several areas set aside for games, including a croquet pitch, shuffle board lanes, and checkers/chess boards painted on tables. When I walk by, most of the time it is being occupied squirrels or the occasional passer by like myself. Cilei and I played croquet there once, it is a game I am familiar with from childhood. In the painting, the play area is composed in an immersive manner, so you can imagine yourself whacking the croquet ball through the colourful wickets with a wooden mallet.
Croquet Pitch, Trenholme Park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2022 (No. 3214b)
Since I was there to pick up the Lufa Farms vegetables I made another quick painting of a large apartment building on Sherbrooke and Cavendish. It was dusk, so the car headlights were standing out from the impending gloom. Since it was raining a little I stood under a massive tree, which is just depicted in the foreground. A lot of these old trees had to be cut down recently due to infections. The city replanted most of them but it will take 50 more years for them to get big. At least the squirrels have enough trees left to live in, and they seemed quite well fed! I depicted one in the first painting, it wouldn't sit still so it was painted from memory.
Apartment on Sherbrooke, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, August 2022 (3215)
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