Alabama

On Friday morning then again early Saturday, (of our Alabama trip) Charles and I got a chance to ride out in the country . As we always do we visited some of the spots where he lived as a kid.
It was rainy weather so we were not able to be out a lot but it was enjoyable, nonetheless!

This first picture is a cotton field in bloom, with an old red barn in the background! The cotton blooms are enclosed in the, so called, 'square' and open up pure white and then turn a shade of red. The cotton bolls form in the center of the flower, deep inside the square . As the cotton boll grows and matures the flower falls away. Finally, the boll opens with sections of white cotton, surrounded by sharp edges of the housing from which it grew. Cotton is ready to be picked in fall, or usually after the first frost has come!








Picking cotton is a 'prickly affair' so I have been told! :) Charles, having grown up in Alabama on a farm, knows ! In fact, I too have some memories of cotton fields from my early childhood!





This ( below)
is cotton ready for pickin'












BTW- This is a good website to show how cotton grows.

( click on picture to read website addy )













Youtube~ Cotton Fields~ CCR



~~Lyrics~~

Cotton Fields

~Creedence Clearwater Revival~

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in the cradle
In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

Oh when them cotton bolls get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home

It was down in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home



Junie