the velveteen rabbit?

flower show was good, if not quite up to the standards of previous years... possibly because lots of people weren't quite sure what to do with Ireland as a theme? There was a celtic religious run (roofless chapel, ruined tower, & small stone circle) that was probably my favorite, and a thing with dinosaurs in it, which would have been better if it had involved less fighting people to get to see it. And a local high school did the ogham alphabet (I hadn't known that all the letters represented trees) which was pretty cool in concept.

But tea on saturday and then the "King Tut" exhibit was excellent. They didn't allow photography in the exhibit, sadly, so I don't have a picture to reproduce the hieroglyphs from, but they had a "magical brick from the tomb of Thutmosis IV" (1400-1390 BC... I think that's his reign?) which was inscribed with: "You who come to pull [my hair], I will not allow you to pull [my hair]."

I think that's the best thing ever.

Ok, never mind. There were also lots of fancy funerary things with infinitely tiny inlays, and a naked swimming lady who according to the caption was the handle of a spoon, the (missing) bowl of which had been shaped like a duck, and all sorts of symbolic things carved to represent other things, which would "magically become real in case of need." heuchera asks: "Like the velveteen rabbit?" I looked at her funny, and then giggled until everyone else started to look at me funny.