Wow! that green monstrosity thingy in #2 looks like Darth Vadar’s staff car.
An interesting series, Patty, and all to make new nickers and jocks!

Hahahahah!
I know! They are huge and frightening!
Can’t you just see skivvies flying out the back as it mows down the field!
That would be a funny cartoon!

Very nifty, Patty. My dad made a video at a cotton gin in Alabama, where I was born and my parents live. He also wrote a song about cotton. LOL! My mothers parents worked at a cotton mill and my mother grew up in a mill village. Cotton used to be king.

Hey Alabama! :thumbsup:
One of the old store fronts used to have a “King Cotton” sticker on it.
I took a photo of it a few years ago.
That’s so cool about your Mom and Dad.
Video and songs…need to make his song the soundtrack for the video!
The lint dust in the gin-mill was everywhere.
I bet it was awful for your Mom in the summers.

I love driving through cotton country in the late summer/early fall.
Its gorgeous. Like fields of white puffy flowers.

Thanks for looking both of you!

Patty, I enjoy going to tours like the one you just shared with us. l love cotton.
Those huge harvesters sure can make your teeth rattle. I bet the fields are beautiful just how you described them. Thanks for bringing these back for us. This was almost as interesting as the chocolate factory I toured but I am sure it did not smell as good. :wink2:

Thanks Lorell!
Chocolate factory…LOL dangerous place! But yes, I bet the aroma was out of this world!

Nice photos. That would be an interesting place to visit.

There was a cotton mill in a nearby town from me when I was in high school. Some of my friends would work there during the summer. I wrote a song about it being torn down, years later. Nothing much left of it now.

That’s why I feel compelled to go out and take photos of old buildings etc.
Because as land and property values increase (along with taxes), the old is sold off and redeveloped.
Our small county’s agri lands are disappearing quickly.

Thanks for looking!