Actually, a rice field with a farmer just getting ready to put in rice. The rice is started in hot houses on flats and then the flats are set into the planting tractor that pulls off a few stalks at a time and plunks them deep in the flooded field. Around the edges of the field (where the tractor can't get close to) the farmer and his family will hand plant the rice stalks, wading in the mud. It gets to be a family event with a everyone sitting around the edges of the field eating rice balls.
I thought the pick-up truck carrying the flats to the field was interesting. Like tiles of a green carpet!
And here is a newly planted rice field rice all in nice straight rows. The ducks will come soon and swim around through the rows looking for polliwogs to eat I presume. And gradually the countryside will become a huge carpet of green!
I love my countryside scenery.
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Wow, that's a lot of work. I'm a lurker. I don't quilt but I sew and crochet. I enjoy your blog. Thank you.
I'm glad someone can make use of mud and water. Our school got flooded but no one was out planting rice. Pretty scenes but my back hurts just thinking about all that bending.
Tanya, Thanks for your great photos of your country. I never knew rice was planted in rows!!!!
Thank you so much for letting us all know about Japan.,so very interesting we are learning so much from you. What's a polywog !
Joan xx
UK.
How very interesting. Yes, the rice is beautiful!
I have always been curious about rice farming. Please continue on with the rice story as it proceeds - I am curious about the eventual height of mature rice, and would love to learn how it is harvested, and post-harvest handling.
(I live in rural Kansas. Not prime rice paddy real estate.)
And to think this was all done by hand before the truck and tractor came along...thanks, Tanya, I do so look fwd to your daily posting..partially b/c of the things you share about your country, and partially b/c it makes me feel closer to my newest sister/friend...hugs, Pat in IN
How wonderful to see the beauty we all enjoy wherever we are in the world. Your view, and appreciation of it, is wonderful! Every one of us should appreciate where we are. I am in the process of moving for the first time in 23 years. I'm going from Iowa to Florida. When we get into our new house, you can be sure I will be posting pictures of the wonderful new things I have to appreciate. Thank you for sharing your country and yourself.
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