This week, after many gloomy days of rain, the sun appeared Thursday afternoon in New York, casting a magic spell especially in Central Park where, it seemed, everyone was out biking, running, and riding in horse-carriages. Hopefully there will be more days like this soon. Many horse-drawn buggies carried newly-weds on a tour of the park on this gorgeous afternoon. It wasn’t easy to cross a road or to finish a sketch in such an atmosphere of grateful sun worshipping.

Illustration: Pental Stylo water-based pen-and-ink and watercolor by Black Elephant Blog author