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This is a common sight...it is the burning of cane just before harvest.
I wouldn't want to be the person riding in the truck keeping a watch on the fire.
Burning the field takes care of about 80% of the trash involved in the harvest, including dry leaves, spiders, snakes etc. Cane can be harvested without burning but it saves a lot on labor.
before burn after burn
right away, they begin cutting. It is done much the same as we cut haylege/corn..... with a truck traveling just beside the cutter and
as soon as one truck is filled, another falls in and the cutter never stops until the field is done. It really doesn't take very long even in these huge fields.
About a half hour after we saw the burning up close, we were at a quick stop and it kinda looked like it was just barely beginning to snow...black snow, Just little flake or two here and there, but what was happening was after the very hot fire sent the embers high in the air, the small sooty pieces began falling ...and we were maybe 7 miles from where the fire was. The clerk at the convenience store said that they don't even take out the garbage when the fields are being burnt because they get soot on their clothes.
I cannot begin to photograph the number of grackles in the area. As it comes dusk, they begin to settle on the wires and trees along the well lit streets and parking lots. And they are noisy!
And they are not at all skiddish.
I got to within two feet of this one before he flew away.
Ever wonder what happened to all those pumpkins after Halloween?
A quick trip to the Brownsville landfill gave us the answer. What were we doing at the dump, you may wonder. Well, the Tamaulipas crow, formerly called the Mexican crow can only be seen here at this landfill so we thought we would pick up a lifelister....instead, we picked up a couple of nails in a tire.
Christmas layaway at the pawn shop. I don't know if that is funny or sad.
I am not going to embarrass myself by telling you what I thought this said when I first looked at it............. didn't catch on to the fact that peanuts was misspelled,...................I thought the ut was an i
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