Thursday Seeds | Color the Marker
If you put a plain wooden stake in the ground, then so be it.
If you color the marker and then put it in the ground, it’s possible that the marker, this stake in the ground that you have added, will be seen by others. They may even hold you accountable to what happens even if it is something that is after the fact.
If you have a blog post series called Thursday Seeds and a Thursday rolls around and you didn’t post, they notice. Will they come to you about it? If they are a good friend they do! Maybe there is a really good reason. Or it slipped out of sight with other goals in the works and balls in the air.
No matter, it can be seen more clearly as a stake in the ground or a commitment if you color it with paint to be seen. Is it only red? Did you color the thing with intricate designs? Are they on theme? Does the theme show through? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t.
If I’m walking through rows and rows of plants and I’m ignorant of which ones are which, would it not be nice to have a marker that tells me which are peppers and which are tomatoes? Of course. And as the person who plants them, it might be nice too because things get busy and we forget what seeds got planted where. And surprises are nice when you can identify them but not so much when dill doesn’t grow so well with carrots but garlic does.
If this is a power grid station, say in a small community, it could easily by painted some standard blue-ish green. Or it could be painted with special art that is inspired by the community or for the community. If the hospital is close, maybe it is a health theme? If near the engineering buildings, it could be shapes of triangles that make geometry not seen usually by the side of the road. All of these things color the marker. Does the red marker need to be colored with blue? Not unless the hand that holds it needs some blue for some other artistic form of creation.
And yet the markers that dry out could get a make over if the artist chooses. Perhaps their next function is to be the marker of the next garden row of carrots.
Speaking of markers, there were some that had a felt tip that I would almost always drop to the floor as I was growing up. And every time I would retrieve them, the end would have been the point of impact on the floor, flat and unusable. It was always disappointing, I would have to hunt for another. It seems like the latest Sakura pigmas aren’t that fragile. Either that or I don’t drop them as often on their very tip. Are they weighted to not drop straight down? That would be an example of Kaizen[link to definition]. Let’s just say they did that kind of industrial design. I couldn’t possibly be more graceful with pens to the floor in my youth…
Industrial design…for a pen? Why not! It’s a tool too even if it isn’t a powered drill press! Or a sawing table or a sewing table.
Hey! Want to draw?
