Soggy Bottoms

The unwelcome sounds of rain and thunder herald the start of the harvest season. Day after day, dark clouds roll overhead and the thoroughly soaked ground begins to squish underfoot. The fragrant smell of freshly fallen water saturates the now crisply cooled air and the rain soaked cotton plants display slightly soggy bottoms. Cotton, only recently freed, droops dangerously low as if the too long seasons have left it weary of hanging onto life and impatient to be plucked from its prickly prison of husk.

The promise of harvest is given anew in the skies above as well as on the stalks below as the yet unopened bolls bask in the refreshingly brilliant skies that follow the clouds.