If you are ever driving down Park Street near Brenau University in Gainesville, there is someone watching you.

She sits two stories above the road, and her name is Mildred.

Mildred came to the neighborhood about eight months ago and has been keeping an eye out ever since.

"I was up at Randy's House at a yard sale and I just happened to see her thrown over there on the ground ... I bought her and came right on home with her and cleaned her all up pretty," said Pat Greenway, about Mildred the mannequin. "I always have had interesting mannequins."

When she found her, Greenway said, Mildred was a little dirty and was missing an arm and a hand.

Greenway said her love of mannequins came from her mother giving her one for Christmas when she was 6.

"My first one my mother found in a Dumpster in Atlanta," Greenway said. "My mother found one in a garbage dump. ... She dressed it and gave it to me for a Christmas present, and it was beautifully done; that's how I got started with them.

"When I was a child I loved to go through the store windows and look. ... I used to just love to watch their faces, and I just like them."

So when Greenway saw Mildred so beat up and thrown to the side, she knew she had to do something.

Greenway said she first thought Mildred needed some clothes - maybe a hat and accessories.

So she dressed Mildred and now she changes her hat and outfit about once a week. Greenway said she always dresses her according to the season or the upcoming holiday.

About a week ago she was wearing a green hat decorated with orange pins, a scarf, a beaded necklace and a beaded purse. Mildred has brown eyes, thick eyebrows and pink lips.

"I dress her differently; people get tired of looking at her same outfit," Greenway said. "During Christmas she wore her red hat. I had her bundled up because it was cold. I change her jewelry; I change her different ways. ... I just like her, I can't explain it."

Before Mildred came along, Greenway did have two lone mannequin heads that looked out the window. She dressed those, too, but her daughter made her get rid of them. "I still regret that," Greenway said.

Greenway's husband William said he just laughs about his wife's hobby.

"I love (Mildred)," he said.

Neighbor Bill Groves, who lives down the street from the couple, said he has seen the mannequin who lives upstairs.

"It's sort of clever and humorous," he said. "I assume it's a dressmaker and she may sew a lot."

Greenway said many people who have seen Mildred as they walk or drive by have commented.

"I've had a lot of people call up and say they have seen her or that they've nearly had a wreck looking at her," she said.