Thursday Challenge—"cleaning"

In Venice, it's so worth getting up very early
and heading to Piazza San Marco—you can
have the place pretty much to yourself, except
for the colorfully dressed cleaning crew.  They're
out at dawn and busy with hoses and old-fashioned twig 
brooms, spiffing up the piazza before the hordes descend.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, go here.]