Photos - the view from a Cotton Picker - Cotton harvest in Carter, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta -

Views from the cotton picker - 

Cotton picker picking cotton 

Spindles that separate the cotton bolls from the plant. 

10/09/2011 - Cotton Harvest time - Mississippi Delta

Last Thursday, I went out to the Jordan family farm out in Carter Mississippi, down Highway 49West in Yazoo County.  Bernie Jordan took this photo of me, entitling it - "A Cotton Pickin' Priest."  I am very grateful to Bernie and his mom Kitty Jordan for being so welcoming to me and for showing me the wonders of the cotton harvest in Mississippi.  Having grown up in Chicago and Orange County, California, this is a new, wonderful world for me.

9/10/2011 - Photos - Cotton is ready for harvesting in the Mississippi Delta

I took these photos driving back from Belzoni this evening. 

This was taken in the community of Midnight, Mississippi 

in Humphreys County.  Cotton production has been way

down in Mississippi in recent years, but I read recently that

the acreage of cotton planted in Mississippi this year is up about

47% compared to last year.  The farmers I've spoken to are 

hoping for a good harvest this year.  We pray for our farmers 

at all of our masses.