Home Sweet Co-op

I love visiting the Co-op in the big city, because of all the interesting people I see there. It is rather ironic, really because I realized that part of the reason that I feel so at home there is because there are people "like me" around. Of course that is a relative term - because they are really rugged individualists and like no one else and the relationship of similarity lies in the fact that we are more like each other than the other people around us. I'm in a group of people who don't like to be like other people and that is what gives us our sense of belkonging! Here are some of the people I saw on my last visit to The Wedge in Minneapolis:

This woman seems to be really tall.



...and there are always a wide variety of hats...



and long skirts...







People have special ways of getting to the coop:



and are not averse to getting closer to their food:





They also use ornament on more than just their clothing.



Here is a closer view of that amazing tattoo.



This was our cashier. I have always been amazed at his ear ornaments since they seem to follow in the earsteps of the Botocudo Indians in South America who inseret large wooden round objects in their ears increasing the size until they have huge objects dangling in their lobes.