One Sketch #83) Prague Tram

Simple pleasures here
A city in the sunshine
Seen through tram windows.

April last year I paid a city break to Prague. This is inspired by memories of the trip, where my love affair with Central European trams was consummated, as it were.

One Sketch #82) Amsterdam Windmill (Friday 15th June)

Arms akimbo
Harnessing the wind
Which sweeps like a wave
Across the flat lands.

No difficulty explaining this choice. yesterday, Friday, was my birthday. My family have bought me a city break sketching trip to Amsterdam in October - and Amsterdam is one of my top 2 must see destinations. They are simply the best.

One Sketch #81) Swansea Tram

Alas, we are reduced
To little more than
Rattling ghosts.
Fondly remembered
Perhaps even loved
But gone.
Not for good,
But forever.

I couldn't help returning to one of my favourite subjects. When I moved to South Wales in 1986, I'd never heard of the Mumbles trams before. Well, to be fair the tracks were ripped up before I was born. But the Mumbles railway was the first ever passenger railway in the world - horse drawn, but nonetheless, the first.

One Sketch #80) (Wednesday 13th June) Giraffe #30x30DirectWatercolorChallenge2018

Some may think me ugly
Some may think me pretty
But please don't say I look like
A horse, designed by a committee

I don't know really why I picked a giraffe, other than I think that they have really interesting features. Sorry - not a lot more to say than that.