Did you look at at the huge moon floating above us last weekend? The harvest moon, the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, is aptly named in our part of the world. Two of our largest and most spectacular crops are at full harvest time right now. The roads are fill with tractors and trucks hauling trailers full of peanuts and the air is full of the tangy aroma. Yummy! And those boiled peanuts are being sold on just about every corner.
Fields that aren't loaded with peanuts are ladened with cotton. Shining in the sunshine, a field of cotton is lovely indeed.
A few years ago, there was not a boll of cotton in our county. Now it's one of our largest crops. Here's a nearby field I snapped on the day of the Harvest Moon.
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I grew up in the central valley of California and my uncle planted cotton, melons and tomatoes. One day my father and uncle decided that we should learn how hard it is to pick cotton. We were given long cotton sacks with a strap that you put on diagonally and proceeded to pick cotton. I was 12 and my sister was 10. We were paid 30 cents a lb. and I picked about 30 lbs in 4 hours and then collapsed with heat and tiredness. What a healthy respect I have for the toilers in our fields. Years later, this experience served me very well when as a college student, I worked in a migrant camp one summer, helping with preschool education and health.
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