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/
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Thanks for the link Amy. Glad you had a great time in our fair city of Portland.
I have actually been to the Grotto, it was a bit weird to see all the nuns walking around in the forest, pretty surreal. I hear it's very beautiful at Christmas time.
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