Snakes and Stones

[Lord Sorril]

I had a few vacation days this week and I noticed that the Brimfield Antique Show (Brimfield, MA, USA) was starting today. I took my gf and we spent a few hours there looking through the various vendors displays.

The Brimfield Antique Show/Flea Market is notorious for being huge (500+ vendors) and having high end items that are usually overpriced. It is nice to take a look every now and then. The last time I was there was about a decade ago.

We are not so interested in antiques as much as natural things: plants/animals/rocks...sometimes we find things that are a bit of both.

I snapped over 600 photos during my trip today, just a few shown below.

The 'Show' itself extends along Route 20 in Brimfield and has vendors on both side of the street for about a mile.

A lot of the vendors have random stuff.

A few of the vendors had stones and/or stone carvings.

Fossilized whale ear bones? That is new to me.

Fossilized vertebrae (probably whale as well):

One vendor was from Indonesia and he had stone skulls and polished pieces of Bumblebee Jasper, it is relatively rare in the USA.



There were a lot of overpriced skulls, various animals, but, mostly cattle.

I was looking for snake-themed items and I was hard-pressed to find any.
The only one I found was in relation to the Chinese Zodiac (carved out of onyx)

Unfortunately there were some poorly preserved snakes/reptiles as well:

More than one vendor was carrying them.

I think they are neat to look at, but, I would never buy any and they kinda make me sad.

Same goes for skeletons as well...

I would much prefer to look at replicas.

There was quite an array of unusual items...like this sculpture from Bali.

And this Monkey Kampala skull (cursed of course).

Some stuff was just straight up weird and/or creepy.



It was 92F and my gf were hungry and thirsty.
I bought us Lemonades and watched the girl make them:
1 half lemon juiced, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 2 cups of ice, 2 cups of water. You can imagine how they tasted...weak...
As for food: With so many vendors and people there was quite an assortment to choose from, any where from Brussel Sprouts to Lobsters.


All the foods were overpriced, so we let our stomachs rumble.

In the end: What did we buy?
My gf recognized the novelty of the Bumblebee Jasper stones we had seen and she wanted a miniature skull carving.
I also bought her a Heart made from the same stone.

I was going to title the photo: 'Love, Death, and Snakes', however, I only had one snake cooperate...so it is now called 'Love, Death, and Snake' lol...