Common things we all miss

While I’m on the subject of common things that we all miss, here’s one for all you Southerners who grew up around cotton. We all know what bales of cotton look like, we know the cotton boll, both open and before opening, but I’ve yet to have anyone come into the gallery who has instantly identified a  single cotton blossom closeup. It’s one of those things that we always saw huge fields of, with many blossoms on each cotton stalk, that we never bothered to look at the single flower, which is quite beautiful. So many times we don’t see the forest for the trees. So for all you people who don’t know what one looks like, here it is in all it’s glory.

I am fascinated by cotton because it was so intertwined with the rise and fall (Civil War), and re-rise (is that a word) and fall(boll weevil and Great Depression) of the economy of the South.

A single cotton blossom with unopened bolls in background.