I have a three week old and a teething baby. Maybe a lack of sleep becomes me? I am certainly accomplishing far more than I did when I was pregnant – blog updates included!
Jenn at I Hate Whine asked for photos of a cotton field in bloom and since the field is right at my front door, it was easy to comply.
The blooms are there, no doubt about it. But they tend to hide in the large green leaves and they just don’t show up all that well in my photographs for some reason. There are so many more that you can’t see, scattered all through the field.
One thing is for sure though – when all that fruit opens up, you’ll be able to see it.
Lately it’s the closest thing we get to snow in Virginia.
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These are so beautiful. I can’t believe I never thought of the flowers on cotton plants before…funny all the things we take for granted. How are your Rhodies doing?
Paige, color me stupid but I didn’t know they grew so FAST!
I’m going to keep trying with the cotton… maybe photos taken in better light will reveal more blooms?
- Jennifer
They are beautiful, I’ll have to see that someday !
I just had thought of my Grandaddy Fleming when I read this. he would ride us around with him when we were little and point out the crops to us and I can remember him coming around the curve to his farm and a huge cotton field would come into view and he’d say “Miss Anna, look at that snow!”….I believed him!! He was an old school farmer and I have one of his cotton plows he used with a mule in my living room.
I love the pics and the education that I am getting from your posts. My Dad used to tell me things about our farm, it was things that I could never learn from books.
Beautiful…I have seen cotton fields when we custom combined down south but I have not seen it in the flowering stage.
I just posted a picture of one of our sunflower fields…(a post or so back) but they are not blooming yet. I will soon be showing off some of our blooming flax fields. Hope things are going well for you. Stop by my farm sometime!
Gosh I miss raising cotton, especially when I see a pretty green field of it! We ended battling root rot full time, but I still miss it. That and going to the gin to watch the beautiful white fluff! Nothing more beautiful to me!