Ima Hogg Among Other Things…

We were out in Mineola a week or so ago and found an antique shop with this sign in the window,

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which was a very suitable description for what our house had become during our Gap Year in England!

Further along there was this reminder of the lazy summer days of hubs’ youth!

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Continuing on our jaunt we came upon a listed home that had fallen into disrepair. At the front of the house was this marker,

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Curious, I went onto a site to find out more about this woman who bore the unfortunate name engraved on the plaque.   Her father, who loved his family, had christened his only daughter after a heroine in a Civil War poem (written by her uncle Thomas Elisha Hogg), Imogene known as Ima.  What a burden to carry with you for life!

Pretty flowers lined the road where I walked around Hideaway Lake, the lantana in full bloom against the heat,

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unknown berries that wound themselves intricately up an ivy-like stem, also found in my mother-in-law’s garden,

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but she had no idea what it was either.

These paper lantern looking flowers always appear so cool and delicate in the blinding sunshine.

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And of course, a walk wouldn’t be complete without something dead to record.  How about this deceased blue bird?!

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We went to Central Market in Plano over the weekend to get some cake ingredients and saw this display of Fall pumpkins.

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Their very own pumpkin patch in the lobby!  Some of them are edible, most are for show and of course, the perfectly shaped orange ones are for carving!

 

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