Another Sunday where I pushed myself to get out of the house, during a lull in the January rain we have been having. The rain is nothing like last year when all the trees came down, but we’ve been getting some good showers to help grow the grass and keep the hills green. This panorama sketch is on 3rd St, on that stretch between B St and A St leading up to the entrance of the university. It was all refurbished several years ago with a big obelisk made out of bike parts placed in the middle, and several of those wooden cylindrical noticeboards plopped along the sidewalk. That had to be my foreground item in this sketch. My eye was drawn to one of the notices advertising a local band called ‘Mondaiji’, whose guitarist is a colleague of mine in the Stats department. They have been getting a number of gigs in Davis, I’ve still not been able to see them play but hopefully can some time. The other buildings in this view are ones I have drawn multiple times over the years, it’s not an unfamiliar view this. The white building on the left might be the oldest house in Davis, the Eggleston Home from c. 1870. Well, the Werner-Hamel house in south Davis is older (c. 1859), but if it’s just downtown I think this one takes the prize, though there are a few others from around that time still about such as the Cloud Forest Cafe building oon D St, also c. 1870. Remember when I did that centenary sketchcrawl back in 2017? Here’s the info and map: https://petescully.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ldd-map-handout-march2017.pdf. We should do that again. I like how this panorama turned out, even on a fairly dreary mid-January Sunday. It started raining again, so I finished the penwork, cycled off, and coloured in at home with a nice cup of tea.