howling wolf

So I bought something a little strange for me today. Today I purchased a garden statue. why is this strange? I have no garden, and I usually find gardens with statues in them to be too busy. very rarely do I see a garden decorated with cute figures that I find pleasing. benches, little gazeboes (if done well) can look really nice. but not-to-scale creatures with unrealistic expressions on their faces in colors that are just not normal or behaving in ways that make me turn my head? not cute.

but for some reason this one just got me. I was at work (I work at Lowe's as a customer service associate. glorified cashier pretty much) taking trash back and forth past plumbing and garden center when I passed the clearance rack. i always browse through, because sometimes you get great stuff for real cheap. and there was a statue my mom had wanted, but didnt feel she could buy. So I was going to buy it for her, but the last one was in clearance. sadly it was gone. but there sat this statue. large and a little awkwardly scaled, but it caught my eye none the less. and to me it was just beautiful. a pillar colored to look like red stone, carved with what are supposed to be American Indian tribal signs (tho I can't tell you what they mean, if they are real, or which tribe they belong to). And atop the whole thing sits a lone wolf, eyes closed, head thrown back, mid-howl. the mouth is too wide tho, so it looks more as if the wolf is screaming.

not a happy statue at all. and yet for some reaon I fell in love with it. checking the price, it was a tad expensive ($27.00, originally $50), but with my employee discount, it turned into a $25 deal. so here it sits, with no real place in my physical life yet. but the wolf screams at the end of my bed, near the door to my small dorm room, and the beautify of it just makes me feel happy.

overall, a worthwhile purchase. now I must name him. he is my roomate afterall now.