Lawn Ornaments and a Doll Show
On Sunday K and I spent the day driving around odd places, including the lawn ornament place in Darien, where I bought this skeptical little concrete mermaid: They didn't have too many mermaids--if I had wanted a gargoyle, I could have gotten plenty in sizes ranging from 8 inches high to 8 feet high. I had to ask to find even one mermaid, and the one that the staff guy pointed out to me was 5 feet long and 500.00, which was more mermaid than I needed. So I went inside and asked the owner if he had just the "one big mermaid" and he took that to mean that I wanted a procession alley of big mermaids instead of one smaller one. So we finally got that straightened out and I took home the small mermaid. Earlier in the day we had gone to the Marriott in Naperville to check out the doll show. It was a gorgeous day and K didn't want her photo taken: But of course I took one anyway, though inside it didn't seem like the kind of venue where photography was encouraged...