Tools at a distillery in Kentucky
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Hardware stores can be like libraries to me - you can wander through the stacks, pull out something that looks interesting and spend hours imagining yourself doing, or being, something substantial - whether it be as personal as Little Dorrit whose quiet strength helped her maintain her spirit or as lofty and totally unimaginable as building a deck. There's something for everyone!
As we toured the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Kentucky this past spring I saw this open workshop area filled with tools. The mix of textures was a cacophony of noise - the various steel surfaces, the chain link fence, wooden boxes, coils of wire, layers upon layers of parts and colors. Yet, in its own way it was all so orderly and balanced. The room was actually quite dark but the wrenches were hung so beautifully and they caught what little light there was and gleamed. It was so satisfying to look at and I felt like I had been invited into some inner sanctum, or the belly of the beast.
It made me wonder a lot about tools - and hardware stores - because less and less people actually use tools like these. There is less equipment that requires them. Will they all end up in antique stores?
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