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Post by Kramster on Dec 18, 2014 13:07:02 GMT -5
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Dub
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I'm gettin' so the past is the only thing I can remember.
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Post by Dub on Dec 18, 2014 13:21:30 GMT -5
Ooooooo. I like.
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 18, 2014 13:43:15 GMT -5
Boy, Howdy. That's nice.
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Post by theevan on Dec 18, 2014 13:49:21 GMT -5
The clouds are lined up like soldiers marching off to war. Cool and weird.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 18, 2014 14:42:19 GMT -5
So, I guess trees smoke in Arizona when they're over 18 years old.
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Post by Doug on Dec 18, 2014 14:45:24 GMT -5
Tree watching over the cotton fields.
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Post by brucemacneill on Dec 18, 2014 16:29:59 GMT -5
Nice pic but you're gonna have to work on that forest idea.
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Post by theevan on Dec 18, 2014 16:57:06 GMT -5
Tree watching over the cotton fields. Right. WTF are they doing growing cotton in the freaking DESERT? I thought water is an issue over there... |
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Post by Doug on Dec 18, 2014 17:01:37 GMT -5
Tree watching over the cotton fields. Right. WTF are they doing growing cotton in the freaking DESERT? I thought water is an issue over there... Cotton grows good in the desert, think Egypt. |
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Post by RickW on Dec 18, 2014 21:16:07 GMT -5
Egypt has a large river running through it.
The Caspian Sea is disappearing, because the Russians decided to grow cotton in Kazakstan.
But to get back to the picture, beautiful, Kram.
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Post by Kramster on Dec 18, 2014 21:39:13 GMT -5
Thanks kids....This here photo was shot last Sun just a few miles East of Coollidge, Az
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 18, 2014 22:25:00 GMT -5
My guess is that it's a cottonwood. They lose their leaves in the winter up here, so I assume they do the same down here. Eerie picture.
And dumb to be allowed cotton there drying things up when all cotton grown in the US is subsidized.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 18, 2014 22:28:17 GMT -5
Wow. Just freakin' wow.
Mike
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 18, 2014 23:02:21 GMT -5
Having been a kind of short-term intern with the Soil Conservation Service in north Alabama in the mid-70s, I learned that (then, at least) cotton is harvested by first spraying it with defoliant. After the leaves died and shrivelled, then the machines would come thru for the cotton.
Does anyone know if that's still how it's done?
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Post by brucemacneill on Dec 19, 2014 11:45:08 GMT -5
Having been a kind of short-term intern with the Soil Conservation Service in north Alabama in the mid-70s, I learned that (then, at least) cotton is harvested by first spraying it with defoliant. After the leaves died and shrivelled, then the machines would come thru for the cotton. Does anyone know if that's still how it's done? That sounds about right. They're just getting to the cotton fields here now. The plants look dead other than the cotton balls. I've never watched it but I assume the same combine that harvests the fields, not cotton, around me get the cotton fields south of here once they dry out and die off. |
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Post by dickt on Dec 19, 2014 12:12:38 GMT -5
When them cotton balls get rotten you can't pick very much cotton. Just sayin
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Post by Lonnie on Dec 19, 2014 13:30:48 GMT -5
Wow, just wow again... beautiful picture!
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Post by Kramster on Dec 19, 2014 18:38:13 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Dec 20, 2014 17:01:08 GMT -5
B&W can make the happiest of scenes seem very sad.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 20, 2014 19:02:29 GMT -5
Kram, hope you don't mind, I just made the color shot my home screen on my iPad.
Mike
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