First Cotton Bloom

Friday, June 27, 2008

Daily Dunklin Democrat

Photo provided Trenton Thompson, 9, son of Joe Don and Virginia Thompson, is all smiles as he holds up the year's first cotton bloom from a field at the Thompson homeplace, west of Senath at Beech Corner. The youngster spotted the bloom on Wednesday, June 25.

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This is the things I always looked for when I was a youngster, the first bloom always meant that summer was here, and the first cotton boll meant that the Delta Fair was close at hand.

-- Posted by minicoopergal on Fri, Jun 27, 2008, at 3:22 PM

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