After the Fair

"Discovery Garden," wc/ink on paper

In years past I went to the Iowa State Fair every year (sometimes every day) to sketch, and then posted them here, until the pandemic in 2020. After that I have occasionally gone to the Fair but more often my visits have been after the exhibition. 

This year the Saturday sketchers went to the fairgrounds after the livestock, food vendors, kitchen appliance hucksters and all the other exhibitors left. The quiet was lovely, the weather hospitable, and the Master Gardeners' Discovery Garden was still in full flower. 

I sat on a shady bench and sketched a corner of the garden, its foliage masking a service barn in the background.