Photo of the Week

This is not my face.

This is part of a sculpture that we have mounted in the backyard. It looks like stone here, but it's actually resin, I think. It was originally part of a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade float. We know an artist who used to design all sorts of doo-dads for the floats, and he gave it to us when he was cleaning out his studio -- apparently not realizing it would be priceless someday. It's supposed to be one of those thingees (figureheads?) on the front of an old-fashioned sailing ship.

Some day, thousands of years hence, when some futuristic archaeologist is digging up bottlecaps and chicken bones in what used to be New Jersey, he or she will find this and put it on display in a museum, I imagine. Maybe they'll call it a goddess. Click it for a closer view if you wish to genuflect.