Today, we're featuring another photo of a field near Sedalia. This photo shows you how, often, there is a house next to the field. In many cases, the people in the house tend the tobacco, which is a lot of work. You have to plant, weed, water, sucker (remove the top growth), harvest, and cure, all at the right time and all under conditions as optimal as possible. Even people who smoke aren't likely to recognize a tobacco field when they see one. To be sure, people who work the fields see tobacco in their sleep.
Today's theme for the worldwide, City Daily Photo (CDP) October Theme Day is "shelter." We thought about photographing a tobacco barn where the leaves are strung and hung to dry. Tobacco barns are still a common sight in rural Guilford County. However, also noteworthy are the homes with tobacco fields in their side yards.
Happy First of the Month for the CDP community. If you want to take a quick trip around the world and see shelters far and wide, visit, here. Otherwise, just enjoy our post and next time you are on Highway 70 just east of Greensboro, look for this seagreen abode on the westbound side of the road. Typical of our luck, as we were taking this photo, the owners came home. It is not easy to be discreet at the edge of a tobacco field on the side of a busy highway, wearing a dress and with camera in hand! At least we weren't interested in taking any leaves!
this is a great entry for theme day...it's not often you see a house with tobacco growing right in the yard!
Posted by: Tbreese823 | Thursday, October 01, 2015 at 08:30 AM
The denseness of the plants must make for handy cover for little critters.
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, October 01, 2015 at 11:57 AM