Two well used watering cans, each with it’s own characteristics.  The long-spouted can with the arched handle is perfect for reaching into a border to give a chosen plant a good soaking. The more upright, two handled can has a fine rose, good for delicate seedlings.

The design of these everyday objects has evolved over centuries to fit a pratical purpose. Along the way the two variations on a useful theme seem to have developed different characters too.

 

Vintage watering cans in a Paris street market – February 2018
The perfect potting shed – Floors Castle, Scottish Borders – April 2019
and plastic pots stacked among their clay forbears
A specialised selection of bygones at the St Ouen Marché des Puces – July 2018
The everyday meets the bizarre on a Parisian brochante stall – May 2018
A general store in Florence with a bewildering variety of useful (and useless) objects on display – April 2018

I don’t take many indoor photos but, looking back over the last three years, I’ve found ‘still life’ images from street markets, an outdoor shop display and even a castle potting shed – my response to the Lens-Artists Challenge #111 – Everyday Objects.

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