The rules I made for myself were simple: on my regular Saturday walk to The Kroger, I would select six metal objects on the side of the road that would fit in my hand and then photograph them when I got home (click on image for larger size). It was an experiment in historic archaeology, a selection of the kinds of objects that, well, end up on the side of an American road in an urban area. I was posting them on the dreaded FB each Saturday, but I figured I would give them a home on the resuscitated IP. Here are the results from six (now seven) consecutive Saturdays:
Another rule is not to collect exact duplicate items; one common item is the ubiquitous wheel balancing weight (first image). Perhaps the most interesting item so far is the .22 caliber gun shell casing in the 5th image. Let me know if I should continue this or not.
I’ve got some more blog posts ready to go, so keep your eyes open, and send me any e-mail addresses of people you think would enjoy the IP. I still have some cleanup to do on the blog (dead links and such), but I’m back blogging as the FB is really wearing thin.
Incredulous Pithecanthrope
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Keep at it, you’ll strike gold one day!
It looks like you got a Clue lead pipe in #4 group.
I had no “clue” what you were talkin’ about, but then I looked it up. Very similar…
Did you try writing with it? The lead pipe in clue really is lead (or used to be, maybe they changed it)