Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Always carry Paper and Pencil with you in all your trips

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Some pencil sketches drawn in planes during a recent trip to Florida.
Sketching session during flight from Orlando to Raleigh
Visit to the local museum showcased some nice historical pencil items.
Cedar Key trip - Food & Museums
Apparently much of the cedar used for pencil slats in the early XX century came from Cedar Key, FL.
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Cedar Key trip - Food & Museums
Those forest resources were harvested until all the native red cedar trees were gone, and all that remains are some plaques at the mill sites recounting the role this small fishing town played in the history of pencil-making in the USA.

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