Something Strange

Yesterday I had an assignment which required that I follow up on the recent death of a museum proprietor outside the rural Idaho city of Melba. Upon arrival, I was simply amazed by the unique complexity of this particular museum. Unlike most, this particular museum displayed its collection of interesting items outdoors along a walking trail, which wandered through a marshy riparian area for about a mile.

There were many, and I mean MANY, truly bizarre items including, yet not limited to: bronze statues of the American "founding fathers", an "Enchanted Forest" which had dozens of garden gnomes and well over 100 inspirational placards dawning phrases such as "Laugh often", "Love Nature" and "Laughing is Carbonated Love". Strange I know.

Now you are probably asking yourself "and why is this being considered news?" I asked myself the same question and came up with the answer that it's really not. Just an interesting thing to send a reporter and photographer out to do on a slow news Sunday afternoon.