Whatever. They've heard it all before. So it's always exciting when something new appears on the horizon, like that dome-looking thing on the south side of Interstate-10 that isn't the State Capitol.

The 91-year-old State Capitol garden is getting a facelift, a project that will wrap just in time for the January inauguration of Louisiana's new governor on the Capitol's steps.

It attaches awkwardly to the domed old Capitol, completed in 1874 at a cost of $2.6 million. The original Capitol was modernized — without being demolished — for $72 million and reopened in 1982.