A Cuban farmer attends to his tobacco just outside of Vinales.
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That which does not kill us makes us weirder.
- Leah J. Utas
- I'm a writer. I like mountains. I like to take pictures. My life is simple. I like it that way.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
-Hamlet, Act One, Scene Five
-Hamlet, Act One, Scene Five
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15 comments:
Very nice photo, Leah. You certainly get out and about a lot. Love your header photos as well.
Have a great weekend.
Thanks, and thanks. David. There's so much to see in the world. Hope your weekend is stellar.
Cool photo, cousin!
Hope your weekend is wonderful!
Thanks, df Bag Lady. Have good one.
I'd forgotten about Cuban cigars. So this is where they start? Very good photo.
Mary
Yes, this is it. Thanks, Mary.
Great photo Leah. Have a good weekend.
Thanks, Reb. You, too.
The first cigar Sweetie and I shared was a Cuban. They are wonderful (and I'm a non-smoker, with the exception of the dozen or so cigars we have shared over 25 years).
Thanks for bringing back the memories.
I'm a native North Carolinian and my earliest memories involve driving past tobacco fields and smelling cured tobacco in downtown Durham in the humongous warehouses where they did the auctions. In kindergarten we went to a tobacco auction and we each were given a tobacco leaf to bring home. My mother refused to allow me to bring it into the car. If I let myself, I might could get mad at her all over again about that. :)
As late as the early '80s I knew people who would make money in the summers by picking tobacco on family-owned farms. No matter how hot it would get, they'd have to wear long sleeves and pants and gloves to protect themselves from the nicotine in the leaves.
Dang, Leah. Now I'm homesick again!
Wow, that's some HUGE tobacco! A great shot plus I learned something, today...thanks!
Messymimi, as long as the memories are good.
Virginia Lee, it really was a different world back then. I can't imagine a school trip to a tobacco farm today nor getting a free leaf. Kind of sad, really. Sorry about the homesickness.
CherylK, the leaves are big. I watched as one was rolled into a fine cigar. Thanks.
The leaves are tiny! The plants don't come up to his shoulder and the leaves he's stuck don't hang down farther than his knees!
Virginia Lee, when I moved to Raleigh I was amazed to discover that "long-leaf" tobacco was a smaller plant than "burley." It sounds as though it should be bigger. Most of the tobacco grown in Kentucky is burley, and mostly the plants grow higher than my head (I'm 5'6") and when the workers are bending over you can't see them unless you're looking along the row.
Some people are still growing tobacco here, but most took the buy-out and quit during the past ten years. Tobacco was what made small family farms possible here for years after most of the country was get-big-or-get-out.
Mary Anne in Kentucky
Haven't popped in for awhile and I too noticed your header. Very nice. Is it where you live? If so, expect me on your doorstep before breakfast!
Mary Anne, thanks for the first-hand tobacco facts. Most interesting.
Dawn, the scene is about a 90 minute drive west of here toward the Rockies, plus a bit of a hike. On this occasion we went in on horseback.
And what do you take in your coffee?
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