…and everything in its place
Actual conversation:
Patient Spouse: Oh, no! Don’t take a picture of that! It’s so messy!
Me: (no words)
in the shop
Yellowhouse Canyon, Texas
photographed 10.21.2016
Posted on November 9, 2016, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, Leica, melinda green harvey, monochrome, photo a day, photography, postaday, texas, yellowhouse canyon. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
One Day | One Image 
Chaos has its own beauty, for certain. Is this his workshop?
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Yes, it is his workshop. It’s just chaotic, isn’t it!
The joke in our neighborhood is that he’s alphabetized the junk in the attic. He says, “No, I don’t. But it is a damn good idea.”
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I like that… alphabetized junk is easier to sort through than the random piles approach.
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It gets complicated, though. For example, should it be “camping equipment” or “equipment, camping”? Etc.
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That’s certainly a valid consideration. I would think “equipment, camping” since that goes from least to most restrictive… 🙂
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You’ve been holding out on me, haven’t you? You’re actually a librarian!
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Haha.. no, not a librarian. Even worse: a software developer. This isn’t my joke but it’s pretty accurate…
The wife of a software developer asks her husband: Can you go to the store and get a gallon of milk? If they have eggs, get six.
He returns a few minutes later with 6 gallons of milk. She asks, “Why did yo get six gallons of milk?!”
“They had eggs.”
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That joke sort of applies to grammarians, too. So of course I think it’s hysterical.
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Does he do house calls?
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I’ll find out and let you know….
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Tidying things up or away never works for me. My wife does it for me when the mess gets too great – then I can’t find anything. I have a shed that I tidied last week – it stayed tidy for one day then it was in a mess again. Mess is the natural order of things.
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Andy, I know exactly what you mean about your shed. I’m going through the same thing this week with my office at home. My house is on an artists studio tour on Saturday and Sunday and KEEP CLEANING my office and it just keeps getting messy again. I strongly suspect my cat is somehow involved. Or, maybe it’s just my inherent messiness….
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I could not get comfortable working in this space. That tidiness represents a dark cloud of obligation for us messy unwashed.
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The funny thing (using “funny” instead of “deeply disturbing”) is that he really did think it was messy.
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Yikes!
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