• Feeling a little lonely, Indigo stops to savor the confident lines of the Blaylock’s fish fountain. The Blaylocks themselves left hours ago, briefcases in hand.

• Indigo Animal loves classical lawn statuary. It has endured. The ancients knew the value of a well-appointed garden.

• Examining the protector statuary at the front gate, Indigo wonders, “How could I have missed this place before?”

• A certain amount of brainstorming is also required since the style of many of the pieces is maddeningly eclectic.

• A single gondola is moored in the murky water. Indigo decides to take a ride.

• Even as these thoughts flash off and on in Indigo’s brain like so many lightning bugs, the morning routine will not be denied…

• In this blanket, I have gone where no other Indigo Animal has gone before, and with good reason.

• Being a circumspect creature with a great respect not only for beauty, but for order, research and the proper application of statistical evidence, I must therefore advance the hypothesis that…