The Mineral King Preservation Society has 2/3 of a room at the Three Rivers Historical Museum. We call it The Mineral King Room, in spite of sharing it with another exhibit.
A few years ago I painted some murals in that room.
Recently, the room started getting a facelift, or perhaps “makeover” is a better word. I was at the museum for something, went in the Mineral King Room, and saw the beginnings. My first thought was that it was colorful and spiffy looking; my second thought was that the blue didn’t match the sky in the murals, and my third thought was that the supposed Mineral King peaks did not look like Mineral King.
Several weeks later, another Mineral King person stopped by and said, “That color of blue is doesn’t look like a Mineral King color, and I don’t recognize those peaks.”
Thus, I got a phone call, asking if I could change the color of blue and fix the line of mountains.
Aren’t you just dying to see what I am talking about?
An incidental thought about that blue: it is a great color, kind of a turquoise or teal, something I have quite a bit of in my wardrobe. It just doesn’t happen to match a sky in Mineral King. It might look better with the rust than the sky blue, but reality has to take precedence.
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You’re right–the sky color isn’t quite like the MK sky (and I was just there yesterday–happy sigh)! I look forward to seeing the progress!
Sharon, you are home already?? Glad you got to go, albeit for a sad reason.
The blue strip isn’t meant to be a sky color; it was chosen because it is “Disney blue”. I guess that makes it a history color.
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