A short while ago I showed you pictures of a rice field after a thunderstorm. Here are more recent pictures of that same field near my house. The rice is ripening and should be ready for harvest pretty soon (it was planted later than most fields in town, and

  A short while ago, just after a thunderstorm, I went down to the rice field near my house and took the following pictures:                 The pictures could be better, but this way they give you a glimpse of my learning of using

  Another shot taken in my neighborhood. Introducing the Matsunawa Pond (not sure if that’s the real name) whose purpose is – I assume – to provide water to all the rice fields in the neighborhood (it’s not the only one in the area). It doesn’t have much water right