Snow White Cotton

Charlie took an afternoon off from work last week, so we could drive around and look at the fall foliage and fields of snow white cotton. October is a favorite month of mine, the fields really do look pretty before the cotton is picked, and the small gins are humming from October to December. After the cotton is picked it is partially pressed into large 'modules.' The modules stay in the field until the gin is ready for them, then a truck goes out and picks them up.

Modules next to the road are sometimes spray painted with political or funny messages. I had to investigate this one....

No, I didn't bring a can of spray paint with me to alter the message!

While we were checking out the messages on several modules, a very cool looking cotton truck drove past us in a direction away from the gin. Well, we had to follow it!

We thought we had lost it, but found it again several miles away (tiny in the picture below at at the far end of the field on the right).

I thought it would be fun to try a panorama photo.