hi Smilla! Maynard... Ain't that way out there!? hmmm. Anyway, saw in your profile you like Edward Gorey! Well well, never thought I'd meet anyone who is also an Edward Gorey fan! Since I don't go into new bookstores anymore, tell me, is he still doing books? Somewhere I have the whole alphebet on 24 postcards- in a box somewhere. I wish wish wish that years ago I had paid the $35 pbs was asking for membership and you'd get a complimentary coffee mug that was an E. Gorey drawing that changed as the liquid tipped. I think it was the animated woman from mystery, you know, the one with one hand on her brow in distress whimpering, "ughhhhhh..." in a dying kind of tone!
AND you like bats! Did you go see the Malaysian fruit bats at the Franklin Park zoo when they were here two summers ago? it was really, really neat. After all the tourists left the lecture, we found the zoo gal who gave it (well jan was the brave one) and asked her to take pictures from inside with the bats! She did and said not to tell anyone she had done this!
Anyway, Hello!