It is no secret that I’ve become completely hooked on Flickr. One of the things that makes Flickr fun for me is the idea of “Groups”. A group is way to share photos about a particular subject and discuss them. There seems to be a group for just about everything these days and I’m personally part of a couple dozen groups.

Up until just recently, I never saw the need to create my own group, since I was always able to find a group about whatever topic I wanted. Last week, however, I finally find a spot where Flickr needed a group. I had taken a whole set of photos of horse-drawn sleighs when I attended the St. Croix Valley Carriage and Driving Society’s annual Sleigh and Cutter Festival at the Washington County Fairgrounds a few weeks ago. I went looking for a group to join to post my sleigh photos and came up empty. There were groups for horse drawn vehicles, driving horse, etc — but nothing specifically about sleighs. So — I seized the opportunity and created a group devoted to sharing photos and discussing horse drawn sleighs, bobsleds and cutters.

So far, after a week of existence, there is a grand total of four members of my group. Now I see *why* there wasn’t a group for this already. Oh well. It was fun anyway!

–Pete