Our North Carolina

This is just one of the state forests we've hiked

Rustic and beautiful old wagon

These are the flower heads on the tobacco plants.

They must get removed by hand so as not to turn the tobacco bitter.

The tobacco leaves are cut and bundled and hung on long sticks, the sicks are then hung in the barn. On the floor of the barn a oven style baking hump (it looks like a over sized speed bump) it is loaded with fire wood and must continually burn for about two weeks to dry out the tobacco leaves.

Tobacco Barn

Below note the deep rows ... that's to keep the roots from sitting in the wet clay during heavy rains. These are tobacco plants just before harvest. The process is very long, the plants must dry in tobacco barns for two week then get moved into a regular tobacco shed to get remoisturized for two - three weeks ,then they get removed and packed in large barrels for shipping or they get taken to market in large open baskets to the auction houses in Reidsville. Or sometimes they would have been beaten with sugar cane or hickory sticks until very fine , rolled and smoked.

Macy looking for a boy friend.. You have a nice face!

Twice bitten but not out yet...

Our rose garden