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"Station That Was At One Time"

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    The Country in Virginia has spot where the folks decided to place a gas station alongside a road.    Its there that they serviced those that lived nearby, now defunkcd they remain crumbling along the roadside.   Once popular as service stations they have an iconic look to them.   That is there look is unique to the fact that they all have a portico reaching outward from them where the gas pumps stood.   Here in this painting I pictured those features in this station declining days.   One can sense it must have been the scene of many a car fueling under its roof.   The wood is rotted.   The pumps have been removed.    The oil tanks well who knows if they are gone or not,  no way to tell.   The geometric wooden structure is still in tack,  for how long no on knows but for now it remained long enough for me to paint it. 

Walton's Mountain

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 Here is my version of Walton's Mountain with Earl Hamner's country home before it.   Its small painting, only ten inches square.   With the tacks holding the canvas and the popular trim framing, ten inches and....  Its an oil painting done on location on Rt 6 in Nelson County, Va.