I love groups of objects but try to avoid pictures of them for some reason.  I shouldn’t, because as I so often say, photography is about your own vision.

Last Friday night, instead of going dancing, dining or to the theatre, I found myself at Home Depot looking for a good thatching rake.  The details of this excursion are not important, but instead of grumping about it, I decided to make use of the time taking pictures of garden implements.  Forget Venice.  Take pictures where you are.  Train your eye by going to a hardware store and finding one thing to take a picture of.  Garden hoses coiled up, jumbles of plumbing fixtures, and tools lined up all make great subjects.

I glossed up these shovel pictures (grunged them up, actually, which for me is glossing) to sand off some of the ordinariness.