Florida-Al border @Thanksgiving 2010 --Driving when saw white stuff along road that reminded us of snow.
Started light rain but asked my brother to stop to get handfuls of cotton that flew off fields or trucks. Filled
a coffee cup full then further along saw more.
Tried to fill grocery bag. Home few days later so sat it in
the shower stall. It smelled so washed it in kitchen sink then put out in Fl sunshine. It rained. Put it in pillowcase in dryer. Took an hour to clean up the dryer area because of little brown slivers of plant. Sat pillowcase outside (still damp)
and it rained. Spread it out to finally dry.
Spent 4 hours combing some --WOW_ what a job that was.
Used 1/4 of it and gave up. Had enough to make a pin cushion that fits in the center of my bobbin circle holder.
I realize this is a long store but it took a L O N G time
to get this souvenier from a cotton plant.
At least I saw the rectangular bales sitting in the fields
to be shipped but I can not understand how they could be picked up and put on/in a container. Bales were off white
color yet balls on roadside were white. Hope next yr I get some dry stuff.