We hit a lot of the highlights in and around Louisville, including Mammoth Cave, Cave Springs Cemetery, a quick exterior view of the Jim Beam distillery, and a rockin' antique store. If they don't have it, you don't need it.
The place is called Joe Ley Antiques and once upon a time I would have been a shopping fool, but that life is gone. It's still fun to look, though, and I did plenty of that.
It was a cold, miserable, sleety day, a good one to spend inside, but first these spray-painted, um, things, needed their picture taken. They look a bit like jesters to me.
Lots of stained glass, all over the store.
Another set of three, in the background, that goes with the three above.
This also has to be from a church. I've seen windows just like this. No comment about the doll in front.
Isn't this a beautiful thing? If I still had a house I'd be thinking of places to put it.
Only one Marilyn, though, as far as I could tell.
Signs were all over the place. And there's another stained glass window to the right of the Exit sign.
This butcher block table took me back to the hellish days of working in our bakery. We had a table that was four feet by eight with depressions worn into both sides from chopping dough. This table had a consistent dip to the middle, pretty useless for rolling anything out or even placing a pan down on, but still a really good conversation piece.
Now be honest. Have you ever seen Stations of the Cross outside a church? No, not me, either.
Three guesses.
Cash registers for real and imaginary transactions.
I remember Fudgicles that we got at the corner drug store for 7 cents.
Yum. Both of them.
Just the kind of piece I would have been looking for a spot for in my house.
Very tempting, but I already have a Walmart toaster, and how much does a girl really need?
This is the kind of thing that gets me thinking, what can I do with this? This time around, though, what I did with them was leave them in the store.
Here's an eclectic mix.
Traveling? If you don't need a suitcase, how about a saddle? Or a wagon? Or a pink firefighter's helmet?
Now here's cool, and it was very tempting, but I have no counter space.
Just in time for dia de los muertos.
Not exactly Louisville Sluggers, but they're in the same family.
If I only had a spare staircase....
Pretty. Just pretty.
Just to give you an idea of the sheer pandemonium of the place.
And here's the one, silly, crazy thing I now wish I'd bought. I have just the spot, too. Maybe it will still be there when I go back.
[added 10/31: I forgot to show this one. There was a pair of these and they were attractive, as ragged as they are, in a sick kind of way]
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Thought of the day:
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. (Arne Jacobsen)
