When we first went to Arizona for the winter from upstate NY, I was so surprised to see cotton growing out there. I had always thought it was grown in the South. Guess got my ideas from Gone With The Wind.

Thanks for helping to put it in perspective!!!

Thanks for the education! I've never seen - or maybe just hadn't recognized - a cotton field. I do remember from school days that Eli Whitney was responsible for the cotton gin but I never actually knew what it was. Could you mix it with tonic? heh heh

I can smell the defoliater from here. Grew up in Alabama. Never picked it, but have pulled it out of the boll.

Where I grew up, "pulling" was grabbing the whole boll and putting it in the sack. "Picking" was pulling the cotton from the boll (and stabbing your fingers with the boll points).

I remember my daddy plowing with a couple of mules and my having to "pick" the cotton. I still have some scars on my fingers that I attibute to the cotton bolls.

Wow thank you for that, I live in Australia and didn't even know how it was grown, as I live in a fruit growing region in the country where S.P.C. products are made.

What lovely comments by all, just good ole hard work done by a lot of good people. Thanks to all of them.

It really is a beautiful site!!!

What a beautiful quilt block or quilt, are you sharing the pattern or where it can be found? Thank you, Ceej

Glad some places still had a good cotton crop. It was so dry and hot around here over the summer and still is our poor cotton farmers in this part of the state had nothing this year. Thanks for the pics. I am sure a lot of folks have never seen cotton in the raw so to speak, It is quite interesting to go through a cotton Gin, and to know that every part of the cotton plant, seeds and all are used for something.