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| Sugarcane trucks, Jeanerette, Louisiana |
I'm kind of fascinated by the sugarcane harvesting. No idea why. But I like the shape of the trucks. The harvesting machines are like dinosaur robots. And the sugarcane is so green.
I first wrote about sugarcane in Louisiana here.
Recently, I drove through Jeanerette ("the sweetest place in Louisiana"), which is on Highway 182.
Right on the edge of town, in the short-short video below, you can see: unharvested sugarcane, sugarcane being harvested, empty going out for more sugarcane, and the plant processing the cane. Not to mention the killer song by Blind Boys of Alabama. (I heard them play this very song at Columbia's first Roots 'n Blues Festival.)
I got out of my car to take some pictures of the processing plant. The processing produces an aroma that is not unpleasant. It's not the enticing fragrance of peppers roasting in New Mexico, but it has a homey, agrarian smell. Like barns and horses and earth.
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| Sugarcane plant, Jeanerette, Louisiana |
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