The fields in parts of Missouri’s Bootheel look like they are decorated for the holidays. (Click on the images to make them larger.)
Strange looking hay bales
On our way down to Hayti to meet with Bishop Benjamin Armour to talk about the New Madrid baptism project, we saw round bales in the fields. Mother thought it was odd that hay bales would have different colors down there.
When we got closer, we could see the bales were cotton, not hay.
“Loaves” of cotton
Other fields contained what hooked like “loaves” of cotton.
I read recently that cotton farming became big in the Bootheel because boll weevils ruined the crops in Alabama and Mississippi in the 1920s. It gets cold enough in Southeast Missouri to kill them off in the wintertime.
Travel update
Pulled into the driveway Saturday night after 6,393.8 miles on the road through Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and several side trips through the State of Confusion.
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