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October 29, 2006
Shut my mouth
Peter and I went for a little drive in the countryside yesterday afternoon, taking our sweet time on a circuitous route to Hockey Mom's, stopping to browse at Reed's Odds & Ends (we got an old Risk game with all the pieces for 5 bucks!) and counting the Waffle Houses. I have been living in Georgia for nearly a year and a half now, and this was the first time I had ever seen a cotton field. I was pretty excited; Peter was willing to pull over to let me take pictures, but drew the line at allowing me to get out and pick some and look for boll-weevils.
North Georgia is nothing if not ugly. I tried to make it prettier by taking the photo through the windshield in order to give it that Japanese woodcut blue wash at the top, but still. Meh.
Posted by jodi at October 29, 2006 11:29 AM | categories: athens : jet set
Comments
That could be a picture of Hay Swamp, if you squinted enough to make the cotton look like leftover corn stalks.
Posted by: Heather at October 29, 2006 06:28 PM
You're looking at the wrong parts of North Georgia. It's my favorite part of the state.
Posted by: Janice in GA at October 30, 2006 11:00 AM
You really should go back when you have time. Just imagine what all you could do with those plants.
:)
Posted by: Micky at October 30, 2006 05:53 PM
If you like boll weevils, you should find some time to visit Enterprise, AL. They have a monument to the boll weevil infestation that brought properity to the area by making farmers grow peanuts. Now, the area has a peanut festival every year with tons of boiled peanuts, which my mother could never stand.
Posted by: Zardra at November 1, 2006 05:06 PM