Traffic picked up a bit on Day Six, but still no Larry. Have a look at the day’s visitors: 3 really smart, cute and personable girls on a break from med school in Iowa An old friend told me he liked the blue better than the green, and he asked me if I am still […]
Repainting Mineral King, Day Five
Happy Birthday, Laura!! Repainting Mineral King, Day Five was a wuss-out day. The heat did me in. Sometimes I wonder if my Mom would have been climbing around on the back of a truck in the heat at age 57 . . . no, she was probably climbing a home-made scaffolding while hanging wallpaper. How […]
Repainting Mineral King, Day 4
Time Change + Heat = Tired The air temperature was cool, but the wall was actually hot to the touch. Oh wait! That is Allen, from Friday, the cool overcast day. Doesn’t he look convincing as a skilled muralist? Let’s have a little review of before and after. BEFORE: (Notice the correct spelling because I […]
Repainting Mineral King, Day Three
When I arrive each morning, I study the mural and decide the order of business for the day. On Day Three, the first item of business was to hang a banner on the back of the truck. (Thank you, Trail Guy, for the most excellent suggestion!) The second item was to move the truck out […]
Repainting Mineral King, Day Two
This is what greeted me at 8:30 a.m. on Day Two of repainting the Mineral King mural in Exeter. The truck’s cab is at Mosquito Lakes; the bed is at Mineral Lakes. That’s one big truck. See the little green car in the background? This truck could eat my car for breakfast. I stood on […]
Repainting Mineral King, Day One
On Wednesday, I began repainting the big Mineral King mural in Exeter. Gave me something to do while I waited for Samson to get civilized at the veterinarian in Exeter. So much has changed since I painted this mural in 2009. The attorney who told me to use his office as a staging place died last […]
Mineral King Road Messes
Last week Trail Guy and Retired Postman headed up the Mineral King Road. This was a couple of days after some very heavy rains. First stop? My favorite bridge, of course. (The Oak Grove Bridge). Retired Postman is very very tall, so he was able to take a photo above all the messy shrubs. This […]
Repainting Mineral King and Prudence
Happy Birthday, Gordon!! The big Mineral King mural in Exeter has faded. Yellow fades the quickest, so gray becomes purple, tan becomes gray which then fades to lavender, and green becomes blue. The mural colors were like this when I finished it after 52 days of painting in 2009. Now the colors look this way: It […]
Trail Guy Blazes the Way to Mineral King
Before Trail Guy was Trail Guy, he was Road Guy in Sequoia National Park. One of his specialties was opening the Mineral King Road in the spring. This week someone from the Park asked if he’d help make the road passable for snow mobiles so people could get up there to do a snow survey. […]
Little Bitty Ore Buckets
Say what? Ore buckets? Little bitty ore buckets? Remember the first Mineral King Room (in Three Rivers History Museum) mural was of a tram tower below the Empire Mine in Mineral King and only made sense if someone was standing there ‘splaining it? Now, there are visual aids. In addition to the real ore bucket […]