Rough-rider

Emily Tonkin spotted this tough, manly wheelbarrow behind a woodworking shop in Pacific Grove, California.

Iced over

Another picture with the blue norhtern New Mexico sky.

Laurie McPherson wrote:

Took this picture just for you. Flat tire, next to a prickly pear, full of rain and snowmelt, iced over but thawing fast on a balmy winter day in Jemez Springs.

I think this is the first photo of a wheelbarrow with ice in it.

Ra Paulette's wheelbarrow

The man is an artist named Ra Paulette. He has created caves from sandstone hills in northern New Mexico. One of the caves is at Origin, where my daughter, Holly, works. They have an Origin Art Cave Tour.

The image above is from a piece on CBS Sunday Morning, and you can watch it here, on Ra Paulette's facebook page, or maybe at the CBS site if you're in the U.S.

Pulling a wheelbarrow behind isn't so easy, so I'm guessing it was empty and he was running or trotting along. I could be wrong. (Keith says "depends on the wheelbarrow.")

Here he is posing with it:

Rotherfield wheelbarrow

Janine's smaller wheelbarrow, when they lived in Molesley in Surrey, is here, full of kids and stuff: Grabby Crabby Barrow

Now they've moved to Rotherfield in East Sussex, and I hope Janine will send me photos of wheelbarrows she sees in their new surroundings, as she did from Kingston and thereabout!

NOTE ON THIS ONE:

Hi Sandra,
A wheelbarrow for you 🙂 An inherited wheelbarrow. Karl found it behind the log cabin at the new house. He is using it to transport fresh kindling and logs to the back door for use in the house wood burners.

Rotherfield, Crowborough, East Sussex, UK

Wheelbarrow and a windmill

Brighton, East Sussex:


"So here for you today is a picture of our wheelbarrow, in Cloud’s field with the sea and Rottingdean windmill in the distance. If you have a publisher called Heinemann in the US you might recognise the windmill from the spines of those books!!!"

—Belinda (from Brighton!)

Sneaky and subtle

In Lyons, Colorado
photo by Amber Ivey

Simple Life

I don't have the source link for the art, but this was posted on Facebook by Ark Kazad, whom I've known over half my life.

The text is from Kelly Exeter, at this site: http://kellyexeter.com.au/manifesto-for-a-simple-life

The comment I left when that was first shared (and I linked this blog):

And there's a wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrow appreciation can make the world a more beautiful place, too, if every time you see a wheelbarrow you think of the history and elegance and the power it gives a single person to carry more than his or her own weight.