After the notecard set of Tulare County Landmarks began selling, the ideas began flowing. Mineral King was the next logical set, especially since I already had two drawings finished. Reruns, but I didn’t care and didn’t think anyone else did either.
This was the first time I drew the Oak Grove Bridge; this view is now too overgrown to photograph the bridge clearly.
All of these were from my own photos with the exception of the Mineral King Store. I don’t remember my family going to Mineral King until after the store had disappeared, so I used an old postcard without any regard or concern for copyright laws.
This is also the first time I drew the scene of Farewell Gap with the Crowley cabin. I had no idea how popular that would become or that I would draw and paint it so many more times (or any idea that I would become a painter).
Stay tuned. . . many more notecards ahead in this series!
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I have that MK Store postcard–and and many others. I snoop around on eBay and snatch them up! Did I ever show you my collection? If not, I’ll bring up the binder this summer and we can have fun reading what people wrote back then. My earliest “penny postcard” (literally) is postmarked 1918!
Sharon, that is a cool collection. It will be fun to see!
Yes, it is quite interesting! I will bring it up and coordinate a time to browse through the collection.
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