I went to Wekiva Island (1014 Miami Springs Drive Longwood Florida) for the Earth Day Pop-Up for the Planet: Riverside Market. I arrived a little early and sketched the vendors as they set up. I sat on a wooden bench at the edge of the market overhang. While I worked a vendor set up a table where I was sitting. She was selling small, stained class objects, like red cardinal and floral pattern stained glass ornaments to hang in windows.
Large inflatable earths hung from the wooden ceiling beams. I might be biased but large plastic orbs don’t sing true as being particularly environmentally sound. Most of the outdoor tents were set up. Tents were not rally needed sing the entire market was under a roof, but I imagine the vendors must set them up as a matter of habit from doing street fairs. I am thankful that the vendor who set up in front of me didn’t have a tent. That would have blocked my view of all the plastic Earths.
The parking lot here was packed. Besides the market people were crowded along the Wekiva river in their swimsuits soaking up the sun. Kayaks are available for rent and I saw quite a few drifted past all the sun bathers. The ground floor bar and food market was doing a booming business.
TO my right a vendor was selling hand made ceramic bowls, plates and vases. The far right corner had fashion accessories and across from me was Waters of Olympus which sells herbal tea blends.
After this sketch was done, I considers sketching all the sun bathers, but I didn’t want to sit in the sun myself. I abandoned that sketch ideas due to a lack of ahade. It was a beautiful spring day and this is why I love creating in Central Florida.