Next stop: Melrose (aka, Yucca) Plantation

 Melrose is a 200-yr-old cotton and pecan plantation, begun by the son of a French planter and his African slave, whom he later freed.

 I mentioned the rainy weather earlier...  Well, it was in this spot, walking on that brick pathway, that I experienced a very weird phenomenon that, for now, I will just call Extreme Squishiness.  The ground was SO saturated that, when I walked on the bricks, I could hear squishing, sucking sounds for several feet around me!!  At first I thought maybe there were some kind of critters making the sounds, but every time I stopped to just listen, the sounds went away!?!  And every time I started walking again, they came back!?!  I finally realized it had to be me causing the squishes!  And the little muffled gurgles were coming from the soaked grass!  Too weird!!!  Maybe that's how some of those b movies get going...where the ground suddenly opens up and just sucks you right in!

And then...down the street a ways...  Looks like this home has lost its people.  The flag is up (on the mailbox), but there's no one home...