| My forestry work wasn’t always in the woods. I once ran a training program for loggers that included a welding class. While the students were busy welding I was drawing things around the shop. | 
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| The class was in a big garage full of machinery. I like drawing vehicles and machinery, but the tires always give me trouble, especially the ones with big treads. You can see I struggled with these. |
| I’ve done a lot of sketches of logging equipment over the years. Here’s a partially loaded logging forwarder from around that same time. Again, the front tires were a chore. If they were straight on at a 90 degree angle to me they would be no problem, but the perspective of a round tire at an angle is really difficult for me. | 
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| The perspective of straight lines is a lot easier. One day I was waiting for somebody or something at the Fisher Museum at the Harvard Forest. The walls of the small museum are lined with a fantastic series of dioramas depicting the evolution of the central New England forest. I captured this view of them in about a half hour. |
