Creating a Town

For the last two weeks, I've been creating a fictitious northern California town setting for my current story.  I've driven all over Sonoma County, taking pictures of buildings and streets, farms and wineries, bridges and old train stations.  I've spread all these pictures across a table and drawn out the streets, businesses, town square, and roads into town, blocked out areas for farms, ranches with happy cows and "free range" chickens, hop fields, vineyards, redwoods, the hills and the coast line. 

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