Cleaning Out the Garage

Week 2: Cleaning Out the Garage.

It’s only three weeks into the year and I’m already behind. I’m going to blame covid and take a mulligan on this one however. As the year started I had an exposure incident that had me voluntarily quarantined at home for two weeks. During this time I worked on this photo, which I took using some bike parts donated from my sister-in-law’s garage. But there is something about cabin fever that makes it awfully hard to get anything done if you aren’t forced to do it.

Despite my best efforts, I just couldn’t get myself to post, knowing it would mean having to do some edits and updates to other webpages. I know there are people out there who love making webpages and it turns out I am just not one of them. Needless to say, the updates were not made and no new picture was posted. Now that the quarantine has ended, I have no excuse to procrastinate any longer.

From the Flower Shop

The leaves weren’t changing colors, so I helped them out.

One of the most frightening things in the world is a blank page. It has the potential to be anything, but until something is placed on it all the potential for success is latent; but so is the potential for failure. Leaving the page blank seems like the only way to avoid failure, but isn’t not even trying a failure in itself?

I have been examining a blank page for the last two months. Procrastination is easy if you can think of any reason to entertain it and I have been telling myself that I wasn’t ready to start this project for the last eight weeks. I could tell myself I’m almost ready for another eight, but on the last day of the first week of the new year, ready doesn’t seem to be the answer. But starting today, one picture a week for a year just seems so reasonable that, whether I’m ready or not, today is the day.

I got the materials for this picture from the cutting floor of Brown Floral. I had several pictures that I created from things that were just going to be thrown away. I may post some of them in Instagram. In the end this was my favorite and the choice to start my project, One Man’s Trash.