Cleaning the shelves, photo vignettes

A wandering of my bookshelves, presented for your consumption. If we’re lucky, you can click to embiggen each picture. 

A fingerless Mary among the books

Mary wants her fingers back. She lost them somewhere between Gregory Maguire and Carl Sagan. She glows in the dark, so if you have them, she’ll haunt you. 

It’s a bloody stone!

This is a pair of flat metal bars meant to represent money, wrapped in the program from a show at NMSU in ye olde dayes. How does one display such a memento among the other sentimental falderal?

Three glass bottles

There used to be four of these glass bottles. The fourth one, which had a cork rather than a ground-glass stopper, exploded into glitter all over the floor when I knocked it over.  There were many expletives.

A Gargoyle and a Nose

The Gargoyle is watching you. And he’s hungry. The Nose Knows. But they’re both kept in check by the Tim Horton’s can.  The Tim Horton’s can hopes we will do 10 Things again soon. Otherwise it might have to eat the Gargoyle.

A photo of a portrait of Richard II of England

Almost forgot to add Richard II. He used to live on the wall in the hallway, but staged many a coup to escape the wall. Lacking a horse, I gave him a kingdom on a shelf. 

What’s on your shelf?