It was thrilling to see my art come off a printing press as notecards. It was exciting to sell them to stores, and the ideas started piling in.
After Tulare County Landmarks and Mineral King Scenes, it was time to move to the city: Visalia Landmarks was hugely popular in the stores, which are now all closed.
I just trotted all over Visalia with my camera, taking photos without giving it a second thought, never asking permission, just excited to be out gathering new material for pencil drawings to be turned into little packages of notecards. It was fun to think of what to draw, fun to photograph it, fun to learn about and write up a description for the back, fun to be on my own figuring out how to do these things.
This was all done in the days of film cameras with its accompanying wait for the pictures to be developed. During that era, the magical and mysterious fax machine appeared, and we had no idea of email, cell phones, digital photography, the internet with all its huge changes to our lives. Pencils (and erasers) were all I needed.
