As l looked across the cotton field today I noticed this one in the distance standing head and shoulders above the rest. ln the days when picking cotton by hand was back breaking work this would have been a cotton pickers dream. Walking in tall cotton came to mean doing well .
At my sister's suggestion I have entered this is the songtitle challenge with this song by the band Alabama https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IhsbhbnKoR0
so that's how the plant really looks. do they polinate by themselves? just google it, summerfield, what are you about! nice set up and the dof is lovely. aces!
So fun to see it as it grows! Such an important crop!! We'd be unclothed without it!!
A Count Basie song if you want to add to the song title... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0rjyuglcM
What a fabulous picture showing up close what these plants are like. Amazing that someone thought of actually making cloth out of these little puff balls.
Great shot- I remember watching Places in the Heart where Sally Fields and several others are picking cotton and by the end of the day her hands are bleeding. Never really did fully understand the ending of that movie, but I think it did depict what you were describing about harvesting cotton fairly well.
@summerfield thanks for all your positive comments and yes they self pollinate but also bees and butterflies do some of the work! @milaniet They are reallky pretty to see in a filed full of them thanks Milanie @wyomingsis Thank you so much I had to go with the one sung by Alabama of course! @madamelucy It is one of the things I was most impressed by when we moved here! Thank you Terri! @ludwigsdiana Thans Diana! Probably silk or wool? LOL! @monikozi I am so happy you like it this much Monika @wakelys thank you and I think we all do that to one degree or another @louannwarren Thank you Lou Ann! I think it is! @gijsje I am surprised you know that one! I used it once for a similar photo but thank you so much for the suggestion! @taffy I really appreciate that Taffy! @randystreat Thank you Kathy! I struggled with how to make it interesting @lesip It looks kind of like a field of snowballs and I will gladly take you to many of them if you visit in October next year! I wouldn't want to pick it either! @olivetreeann Thanks Ann I don't think I saw that movie and thankfully now almost all cotton is harvested with huge machines. @tunia It is something I never thought about at all until I moved here
A Count Basie song if you want to add to the song title... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0rjyuglcM
Also another song called "High Cotton" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IhsbhbnKoR0
Another songtitel: That old cotton fields back home (Creedence Clearwater revival)
@milaniet They are reallky pretty to see in a filed full of them thanks Milanie
@wyomingsis Thank you so much I had to go with the one sung by Alabama of course!
@madamelucy It is one of the things I was most impressed by when we moved here! Thank you Terri!
@ludwigsdiana Thans Diana! Probably silk or wool? LOL!
@monikozi I am so happy you like it this much Monika
@wakelys thank you and I think we all do that to one degree or another
@louannwarren Thank you Lou Ann! I think it is!
@gijsje I am surprised you know that one! I used it once for a similar photo but thank you so much for the suggestion!
@taffy I really appreciate that Taffy!
@randystreat Thank you Kathy! I struggled with how to make it interesting
@lesip It looks kind of like a field of snowballs and I will gladly take you to many of them if you visit in October next year! I wouldn't want to pick it either!
@olivetreeann Thanks Ann I don't think I saw that movie and thankfully now almost all cotton is harvested with huge machines.
@tunia It is something I never thought about at all until I moved here