Our Lady in Portland, Oregon

So in all this time I've been away from Mary-blogging, don't think Our Lady hasn't been on my mind. My amazing boyfriend took me on a trip to Portland, Oregon and much to my surprise, I found her there. We visited the Mississippi neighborhood, (one of my favorite parts of the city, by the way) and started finding Mary statues in several of the stores. A lady in one of them said she thought there are probably more Mary statues than Catholics, but for a scavenger like me, finding these statues in unexpected places was great. Here's a picture of on of the statues in a store called Flutter (which you, dear reader, should check out if you find yourself in Portland.)

The store's web site is: http://www.flutterclutter.com/shop/shop.php

Another cool Mary thing I learned about but unfortunately didn't get to see was this place:

A huge Catholic shrine to "Our Sorrowful Mother" referred to in travel brochures as The Grotto. It's in northeast Portland, pretty far away from where we stayed and everything else we visited, so we didn't have enough time to get here. But their web site is: http://www.thegrotto.org/

Divine Intervention

About a month ago, I dropped notes in the mailboxes of several Mary statue owners and I've gotten no response by phone or email. This makes me think that Mary owners must be somewhat elusive or they must think I'm somewhat crazy. I'm going to go with the latter here, because if some random girl stuck a note in my mailbox asking to talk about things in my yard, I might be a little wierded out too. So....do I resort to guerilla tactics, just showing up and ambushing the madonnas with my camera, or do I continue to hope that Mary herself with do some divine intervention on behalf of my cause?