If you take a walk or a bus ride or a drive these days, it's hard to miss the signs.

I mean, literal signs.

It doesn't matter if you're in the city or the suburbs of the country.

People have signs in their windows and in their yards, telling you in no uncertain terms what they like, what they hate, what they believe.

But sometimes as you're passing someone's house, you see a more ambiguous communication, a message that they maybe couldn't put into words or wouldn't want to anyway.

Sometimes you pass a lawn ornament.

Some people, they want to look outside and enjoy the waterfall or they want to enjoy,

we'll say an angel. I think every statue that we still has a reason for people.

This is Tatiana Ziegler. She's been a landscape designer

for the past 25 years, and she's the proprietor of Ziegler's statuary, a store in North Jersey

that sells concrete lawn ornaments of all shapes and sizes. This trends, like during COVID,

we couldn't keep a Buddha in if we try. Really, everything that's from the smallest to the large is sold out immediately. This year has been bears. It's just bears. People come in and you ask them like, what are you looking for? They're like, well, I don't know. And it's like, it really has to speak to you. This is Tatiana's daughter, Ariana, who works at the shop too. And then they see something like,

oh my, this is amazing. And then they get that. And then you leave with something so like random,

like the aliens, you know, like. There's aliens? Oh, there's the alien. Oh, my God, I haven't seen

the alien. People buy that alien? Yeah. The alien, a classic little green man in gray concrete,

is sprawled on the ground, resting on its elbow, making a peace sign with its other hand.

They also sell swans, virgin marries, dolphins, mermaids, lions, mushrooms, fountains, little boys peeing into fountains, even Bigfoot.

Anything that's odd looking is a better seller.

Really?

Yeah, odd.

Are the peeing boy statues popular?

So people love it, but they usually go in the backyard.

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