An old wagon in a field of yellow bitter weeds between the Hopewell and Greenwood communities west of the Tombigbee River is seen on an early Autumn day. In the olden days folks tried to keep their cows from eating bitter weed as it would make the milk bitter.Saturday, October 3, 2009
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Wow!, that's some kind of bitter weed patch!, and you surely couldn't drink the milk when the cow ate that flowery weed. I remember a plant
"here and there" in my grandparents "cow pasture" - don't ask, I just never saw horses in there and granddaddy always referred to the fenced area as the "cow pasture" and we didn't question granddaddy Morman Stone. Somehow, it seems that it would have been simple enough to pull that particular weed up after a rain so that the milk wouldn't taste bitter. Farmers weeded the garden, cotton and corn patches, but not the pasture! bettye
looks like off the river road - what we call the river road.. between Peppertown and just south of Mantachie.
lovely photo.
Bettye, that bitterweed is potent stuff. I remember pulling up the weed when I was a kid playing out by the barn. Another smelly weed is the Joe Pye weed. Some folks call it Queen of the Meadow I believe. That stuff is worse than bitter weed to me.
Shelby, that scene does look like some scenes along River Road now that you mention it. The photo I took was taken on, I believe, Shumpert Road east of the Greenwood community.
Bob, you have a real talent with a camera. Can we expect a new book of published photographs?
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