The farmers are starting to flood their rice fields and the scenery has changed from dry soil to being surrounded by "lakes" So beautiful in the mornings.
These unobtrusive little sprigs are call tsukushi. They herald in the coming of spring. I noticed I was stepping on them when Tetsu and I had our picnic the other day.
I remember a whole lesson in my children's first grade text book devoted to how a tsukushi feels pushing up through the cold soil into the spring sunlight. Japanese children are taught to appreciate nature very young. (There was another lesson on a weed bulb digging itself out of a snowbound field.)
Tsukushi are also edible but they are not on my menu this year...
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If the rice fields are flooded, that means the frogs will soon be singing. Do post about the frogs please as I have fond memories of their calls when I lived in Shiga-ken. :-) I do enjoy your quilts and your stories.
i have read that you first boil, then stir-fry, and when the leaves appear, dry them and use for herbal teas? Would this be so good for Tetsu and his Blood Pressure?? Cheers from Jean
These look like what we would call horsetails or Equisetum, a very ancient type of plant...so called food of dinosaurs....
I wonder if today's children are still being taught to appreciate nature... especially when I see the amount of trash being left behind at flower viewing parties.
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