The Bow Belle

This one is a repeat; I first wore it on June 23rd .  Etsy shop is TincysCorner . Harvest season is beginning here in the Bootheel.  Most of the corn has already been gathered, but there's still plenty of cotton and plenty of soybeans, and undoubtedly some peanuts in the mix.  The fields are a beautiful sight to behold regardless of what's growing, but visually my favorite crop is cotton.  A healthy field of cotton looks like snowfall from a distance, especially when the bolls are opening up. Unfortunately with cotton comes the chemicals used to help the bolls open up.  We locals call it all "defoliant," but it's probably a cocktail of several chemicals.  Every year the air reeks of...y'all remember what bubble solution smells like?  If y'all are familiar with bubble solution then you know what I mean.  Defoliant smells like that, plus something else that makes my eyes and nose burn and my throat choke up.  The town is full of people who are ...

Okay, that was back on June third, but today's bow wasn't ready then.  Indeed, since these bows are apparently made to order they take awhile to ship.  Anyway, despite me being located in Missouri the phrase "sleepy, dusty, Delta day" fits pretty well.  It's warm (but not hot, thank God), it's a bit windy, and most of the Missouri Bootheel is sand so the dust is stirring.  It's a good day to do nothing, but of course, I have to work.  Work means a hair bow, so...well, it ties in tangentially with Billie Joe McCallister and his fatal jump of the Tallahatchie Bridge.  The protagonist in "Ode to Billie Joe" was chopping cotton when she learned that her friend had jumped. Etsy shop is TincysCorner , down in Louisiana.  Fitting!  This particular bow is made out of linen, and linen is new territory for me because I don't have too many bows made out of that.  The vast majority of my bows are grosgrain, and indeed this one has a knot of grosgrain at ...