Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Don Donovan's World - Old Longford Store, Murchison

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 17 October 2012

Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 59. Old Longford Store, Murchison


Supermarkets, good roads and reliable cars killed old stores like this one on the Murchison to Nelson Highway. By the mid- to late 1960s they were either gone or falling into disrepair. Fortunately I got to the old Longford Store before it disappeared and I sketched, painted and photographed it.

Sqiggle, squiggle and you have a poplar tree, another set of squiggles is a pine and some more make the long grasses and the hill form beyond. It's all cheating until you get to the building, than you have to be more diligent.

© DON DONOVAN. 
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don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz

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