Prairie Bluestem

Seen in Christian County, KY There's plenty of time to take a picture, when following a buggy uphill. They are extremely slow, b...

Seen around the county during the last month A nearly-dry stream bed in late September. Now, the water is probably full of fallen le...

Common sight in Christian County, KY Dozens of old tobacco barns like this one can be seen across Christian County, KY. Some stand along r...

Summer in Christian County, KY I don't know if the dead-looking leaves at the base of these tobacco plants have been caused by the dr...

A familiar autumn scene in Kentucky This barn has tobacco hanging in it, visible through the doors. This is almost certainly burley tob...

Wet weather a problem for tobacco growers. Frequent rains have kept our part of Kentucky much wetter than usual for this time of the year....

I told you so. Fall of 2007 A couple of years ago, I wrote that I was surprised this barn had tobacco hung all the way to the top in it. I...

Harvest of gold One of the neighbors was harvesting a cornfield yesterday. Two massive combines were stopped in the field with their hoppers...

Firing begins. Our neighbor's barn is full of tobacco, and now he's firing (fire-curing) the tobacco. Inside the barn, sawdust is sm...

Tobacco harvest has begun Our neighbor tore down a rickety old wooden barn and put up this handsome new pole barn last spring. He has begun ...

Examples of Kentucky's famous tobacco barns I like these red barns that sit on the Edwards Mill Road in Christian County, and I've p...

Usually, it could be worse... Just to improve your outlook on life a little, here are a couple of photos of someone else's bad day. This...

No old barns here... The barn on the right was built recently and is already filled with burley tobacco. You can see the tobacco leaves han...

Old barns can be hazardous. This time of the year, many of the old barns along the rural roads of western Kentucky are put to use. They are ...

Tobacco harvesting, curing, stripping methods described in 1923 are essentially unchanged today. My 1923 agriculture textbook has an entire ...

The world's most important tobacco producing regions in the early 1920s Millions Nation of Pounds or State --------- --------- ...

Drought has affected this year's tobacco crop Dark and burley tobacco in a Christian County, KY, field Tobacco harvest has begun in Chri...

Life in Christian County, Kentucky... The last step of the tobacco harvest is to discard the stalks of the plants. By now, the leaves have ...

Life in Christian County, Kentucky... Foggy morning The tobacco farmers love foggy mornings like this, because it brings the tobacco leaf ...

Life in Christian County, Kentucky... The former Harton & Scranton Dark Fired Tobacco Warehouse Someone is demolishing the old tobacco w...