Ben DiPaolo’s dog, Lili, waits patiently as John Shingler cracks a pecan for her while taking a break from picking pecans off of the ground Wednesday on Cherry Street near the old Carr Central High building. Shingler and DiPaolo picked three five-gallon-buckets full of pecans. The two credited the amount of pecans on the ground to the high winds Tuesday night. (Meredith Spencer*The Vicksburg Post)