Harvest time

[bpate4home]

Was able to get out for a few hours yesterday thanks to the Holiday.

[slowrollwv]

Nice pic but did you have to stop just at a wet spot or did you spill something by the bike?

[CaseyJ955]

Amazing, love all that space around you. Great pic, looks a tad nippy out there today.

 

It was 101 here 3 days ago, today 3" of snow on the ground.

[Woody]

that's a great picture,

[djh3]

I remember them years living in Southwest OK. We came back to town one year from Florida and it was late at nite. They had been harvesting cotton for a week or so since we were gone. There was so much fluff blowing around town by the Gin it looked like it was snowing.

[bpate4home]

Nice pic but did you have to stop just at a wet spot or did you spill something by the bike?

 

I didn't even notice that but it was a coincidence. The bike is good.

[bpate4home]

Amazing, love all that space around you. Great pic, looks a tad nippy out there today.

 

It was 101 here 3 days ago, today 3" of snow on the ground.

 

No that was about 10:00 in the morning before the rains came through. It was about 90 when I took this.

[CaseyJ955]

No that was about 10:00 in the morning before the rains came through. It was about 90 when I took this.

 

That looked like frost and snow to me, guessing it's cotton? It was so cold here I thought I was looking at a winter picture haha.

[bpate4home]

That looked like frost and snow to me, guessing it's cotton? It was so cold here I thought I was looking at a winter picture haha.

 

Yeah it's cotton. Thousands of bails in the fields.

[RDawson]

My grandfather was a cotton farmer way back when it was picked by hand. He and his kids did the work and from the stories I’ve heard he’d go nuts if he looked out in his field and saw cotton still on the plants. I remember as a kid riding with dad through cotton fields and he always mentioned the cotton missed by the automated pickers.

[bpate4home]

My grandfather was a cotton farmer way back when it was picked by hand. He and his kids did the work and from the stories I’ve heard he’d go nuts if he looked out in his field and saw cotton still on the plants. I remember as a kid riding with dad through cotton fields and he always mentioned the cotton missed by the automated pickers.

 

My dad would say the same too. But with today's equipment they farm so much more land they don't mind the missed crops too much. They also loose less to rot/water damage from what I've read.

[saddlebum]

Cotton! Here I was thinking they were giant candies

[bpate4home]

Cotton! Here I was thinking they were giant candies

 

An acquaintance from Sweeden called them Marshmallow fields LOL