To steal a few lines from singer Rick Nelson- I went t to a garden party and while I didn’t find Johnny B. Goode hiding in the closet I did find some appealing items to photograph. Actually the garden party was the GardenFair at Winterthur www.winterthur.org/calendar/gardenfair.asp, which featured all kind of plants, pots, furniture and everything else to put in the garden. But what caught my eye were the tools. There weren’t as many as I had hoped, but a couple of vendors offered some that were beautifully designed and fun to look at. The show runs ends tomorrow.
At the Foxgloves www.foxglovesinc.com booth I found a set of hand forged tools. This little trowel was different from anything I’d seen especially in the way the blade wrapped around the handle. It reminded me of the inside of a tulip.
A hand hoe for lefties - it’s been my curse since birth.
This is the way every shovel should look. The simple design makes it all the more elegant.
The Goff Creek Pottery booth goffcreekpottery.com provided exclusively designed pottery by artist Mary Lynn Good of Bath NY, and a few antique tools CIRCA 1930.
This small hand tiller about 8 inches wide would have put the garden weasel to shame- at least in its day.
This hand tiller looked like something out of a horror movie.
According to Good, this children’s wheelbarrow is highly collectable and hard to find.
It was one of only two available on the Internet at the time she was looking.
