"But it soon became a real fun thing, and look at all the children we brought out of the backwoods who needed hospital care," said Mr. Wells as he lovingly displayed the cob-stopped moonshine jug he totes in the annual parade.

Terry Lonier, chairman of Working Solo, a consulting company, in New Paltz, N.Y., for freelancers and other self-employed people, lovingly displayed her sea-foam green Nokia 6160 cell phone, a nearly constant companion.

Korean vases, lovingly displayed like museum artifacts high on the opposite wall, say something else.

Recently, in the waiting room at La Casa, Ms. Chavez lovingly displayed a framed photograph of the toddler with her deep, happy dimples and wavy black hair.

WITH its fashionista clientele and rows of trendy designer pumps lovingly displayed like candy-colored sculptures, Bergdorf Goodman's second-floor salon is perhaps the city's most renowned women's shoe emporium.

Its other hand almost lovingly displayed the foot-long nails, traced them lightly across his neck, and then hissed and drew back- Yarnall!

Like a museum, the store lovingly displays "unique luxury items" - white mink capes for $13,200, men's crocodile overnight bags for $19,000, black mink and leather-trimmed throws for $7,400, a Mongolian lamb pillow for $5,100.

Across from its winery and behind its delightful hotel, Le Tre Vaselle (The Three Wine Vessels), is the Museo del Vino, filled with exquisite treasures lovingly displayed.

Elsewhere, she writes, "If coal were not so plentiful, one could imagine it lovingly displayed in museums, placed next to the (generally much younger) dinosaur bones rather than being burned by the trainload."