Rainy day antiquing...

I'm fairly melancholy today, hearing of my friend's son and the drone of raindrops and wind.  Gray skies and drearyness seemed somehow appropriate, but I decided I needed to get out of the house and be alone with other people at least in my line of vision.  I decided to tackle the antique shops that I knew about in my town and had never visited.  I saw some lovely things, some extremely overpriced things, some junk I wouldn't even glance at in a thrift store, and a few things I didn't think I could live without.  Here's what I came home with:

An old black rusty scale and some of those whatchacallers apples that are all lumpy and bumpy.

A vintage, chippy wicker vase thingy, which I flipped upside down and placed a $2 dried gourd on top:

Hard to see the colors, but it looked to have been pained pale yellow, then a pale aqua...beautious.

Old beat-up tool carrier.  Bliss...I'd been looking for one to store pencils and rulers and sissors and so forth in the area where my kidlets do homework.

Super long gourd that I couldn't pass up, and didn't want to separate from his fat sister. Fab or what!

In all, I feel like it was a productive jaunt, but I sorely wish there were more junk shops.  I hear there are a few more places in town to try, so maybe next week I'll venture out again.
EDITed to add that I'm linking up to Flea Market Style's first linky party "I'm a Fleamarketeer"
and Junkin' Monday over at Nice and Easy Antiques.