A summer day in LaGrange, how exciting, well, it was, kinda.
We travelled to LaGrange to see the annual quilt show in their dedicated museum building just off the Courthouse square. A few years ago, a sponsor bought this building and remodeled it so that it now has three large rooms to show the quilts on the wall. In the usual style of museums, there are quilts on permanent display and then a display of quilts on loan that are making the rounds in the nation. One ladies quilts were featured, and most of her creations were tie dyed and machine stitched to match the tie dyeing.
But first we had to have lunch at one of the restaurants just off the square. R gave it a C- rating which saves us from returning in the near term. Then to the flower plant vendor also just off the square---hot, no sale. She did have the fern cigar plant but they looked kinda weak, just as we would have looked and acted had we bought it and then had to plant it when we arrived back home. Now is not the time to plant anything in Central Texas.
Now for coffee at a coffee shop off the square. Pretty good coffee, both rated it a B. Inside was an elderly lady (now use the term elderly, not old, as we are about her age. As she was leaving, I commented on her stylish hat, a beat up western straw hat. She said thank you and left. But then she returned, after having second thoughts on why we were so chatty regarding her hat. Well, that opened up a whole new story on the old times. We quickly got into the information on her being a stewardess on an airline, big time airlines, not the hedge hoppers of the old times, like TTA and Capital Air. She did know about those but had other stories how one time Elvis Presley was on one of her flights and wanted to date her for the evening. No luck. We continued to browse through a lot of old airline stories and some of the old airlines, like the Constellation, DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, and on and on. We told her some of our air travel stories, and she upon departing revealed that she is in the throes of writing her memoirs on stewardess work of those early years. Norma left and we were grateful for having the opportunity to chat with her.
On the square were some old signs of businesses, some of which had advertisements that baffled me. Here is one such sign that advertises, what appear to be brands---not sure if the brands are current or if the sign is just that old. Click on the photo to get a larger readable view of the brands on the top sign.
We travelled to LaGrange to see the annual quilt show in their dedicated museum building just off the Courthouse square. A few years ago, a sponsor bought this building and remodeled it so that it now has three large rooms to show the quilts on the wall. In the usual style of museums, there are quilts on permanent display and then a display of quilts on loan that are making the rounds in the nation. One ladies quilts were featured, and most of her creations were tie dyed and machine stitched to match the tie dyeing.
But first we had to have lunch at one of the restaurants just off the square. R gave it a C- rating which saves us from returning in the near term. Then to the flower plant vendor also just off the square---hot, no sale. She did have the fern cigar plant but they looked kinda weak, just as we would have looked and acted had we bought it and then had to plant it when we arrived back home. Now is not the time to plant anything in Central Texas.
Now for coffee at a coffee shop off the square. Pretty good coffee, both rated it a B. Inside was an elderly lady (now use the term elderly, not old, as we are about her age. As she was leaving, I commented on her stylish hat, a beat up western straw hat. She said thank you and left. But then she returned, after having second thoughts on why we were so chatty regarding her hat. Well, that opened up a whole new story on the old times. We quickly got into the information on her being a stewardess on an airline, big time airlines, not the hedge hoppers of the old times, like TTA and Capital Air. She did know about those but had other stories how one time Elvis Presley was on one of her flights and wanted to date her for the evening. No luck. We continued to browse through a lot of old airline stories and some of the old airlines, like the Constellation, DC-3, DC-4, DC-6, and on and on. We told her some of our air travel stories, and she upon departing revealed that she is in the throes of writing her memoirs on stewardess work of those early years. Norma left and we were grateful for having the opportunity to chat with her.
On the square were some old signs of businesses, some of which had advertisements that baffled me. Here is one such sign that advertises, what appear to be brands---not sure if the brands are current or if the sign is just that old. Click on the photo to get a larger readable view of the brands on the top sign.
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