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David and "Bubba"
were working clearing the ditch in front of
Bubba's property. Beside Bubba's house is
a large field of cotton.
They both looked
up when a large car with Michigan plates pulled up
next to them, and they watched with interest as the
passenger's window came down.
"What are those?"
asked the woman in the car. She pointed at the field.
David blinked
because, as a native Georgian, he had never considered
being asked what cotton was. Bubba, who's pretty quick
on the uptake, leaned an elbow on the handle of his
bush ax, bent over to where he could look the car
occupants in the eye and said in his most
pronounced drawl, "Why, ma'am, that's a field of
grits - in full bloom."
The couple
from Michigan thanked Bubba and wished both boys
a nice day.
David and
Bubba kept straight faces until the car stopped near
the edge of the field and the couple got out to
photograph the "grits."
That, says David,
was where they lost it. "We were rollin' in
the ditch laughing. Them Yankees must'a thought
we was nuts."
The photograph
above was taken near Pridgen, Georgia, on Sunday, November
25th. The roadside for miles around was littered with
cotton bolls blown off of wagons on their way to the
cotton gin. By the time you read this, the final harvest
for cotton will be over in Dixie.
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