Tracing Trails Pre-Writing Skills Book

This would be of especial interest to New Yorkers, as all the sites used as letters seem to be there, but it could also be used as the basis for fun-educational activities like making a similar project in your own area (i.e. finding the letters in your surroundings).

Johnson is a fine realist painter. So fine, in fact, that it quickly occurred to me that he could just as well have used photographs and saved himself a ton of work! Seems like the effect would have been pretty much the same. But here speaks a lazy person, and one who enjoys photography -- presumably the author wanted to paint. I'll definitely have a look for more of his work.