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And, moseying around Nelson a couple of days before Christmas, the antique store had just brought in a fine selection of vintage/antique "Creepy Dolls". I have a thing for them.
From right to left, pocked papier mache doll, Gollywog, what at first I thought was a fabric rhino (but I think it's simply an old or original "piglet" doll from Winnie the Pooh), lying prone - girl with flesh colored eyes rolled back into her head...
So, the next few shops I kept my eyes peeled:
At Moon whatever consignment a mixed media creepy monkey...
An assortment of crystals, wrappings, figurines. No single thing grabs me, but the display works...
Some curious tiny preserves in formaldehyde...
Another gaggle of creepy dolls,
And, finally, this doll here, spotted marking the Bus Stop into the Twilight Zone...
Which, frankly, would be a better horror movie than any I've seen lately...
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Picked up from the beach near the guest house, scouring for hammers, arrowheads, whatever, nada.
Lots of Tufa - porous carbonate minerals deposited by springs, different shapes that resemble corals, conglomerate (with mixed pebbles & plants in the mineralization), casts of plants the tufa formed around (natural "beads"), pink quartz, some botryoidal quartz (? Maybe calcite, not sure,...) a few others chosen for shape or color. Lots of rocks to choose from, Beach glass and old worn crockery, but not an artifact in sight.
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And, at the Re-Store outside of Castlegar, a fine looking Architect's Table (I don't need), and a 12' Easel (which I also don't need, and I certainly don't have a place for, but I kind of want because then I could create my terrible paintings at a much larger scale...)
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A days prospecting adventure, 12 KM in and out, looking for an old fluorite vein marked on the MTO at 5 Mile Point. No sign of it. But a pleasant walk...
A maze out of river cobbles...
