We wanted something nicer than a plastic yogurt container to put our kitchen scraps in til we take them to the compost pile in the back yard. Locally made art work is kind of pricey, especially after being in Thailand for a couple of months. But when you consider how much time they spend making each piece and then selling it, their pay per hour is pretty low.
So if we want artists living here, folks who have a salary and health insurance and pensions, particularly if it it's a government job, ought to find artists they like and patronize them. On the other hand, I've always been somewhat anti-consumption and we're trying to get rid of things. So I tend to be looking for things that are functional AND look nice. The little things we've bought from Paul over the years have all grown on us. So now we have a vase that we're going to use as our kitchen compost holder.
On the way home, we stopped to check out the Saturday Market. It's early in the season and there were some empty spots still. It's a good place to buy Alaska gifts when we go back to Thailand. This is a veiw from the old Post Office Mall - changed to Ship Creek Mall, but that website calls it the Fourth Avenue Market Place. 
We'd found a good parking spot on 4th Avenue and walked through the mall to the Saturday Market. On the way back looking for a window to take a picture from, we stumbled onto Taste of Africa, a restaurant we'd only heard of last week when they were featured in Anchorage Press (I can't find the review on their website). They have a great view and it looks like an interesting addition to the Anchorage food scene. We didn't have time today to try it.
We have a quite a lot sales like that.
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