By Dee Bowman
When I was a young boy we chopped cotton in the Spring. The cotton seed, planted in late April or early May, would burst forth into tiny deep-green plants after having partaken of the sometime stingy West Texas rains. The rains also brought forth some nasty plants indigenous to the region–“goat heads,” “Russian Thistles”–which everyone called “tumbleweeds”– “white weeds” and “Johnson grass”.