Cherry blossom season is a bit different for farmers. While the office workers in Tokyo are perhaps taking an afternoon off to drink under the trees in the park, for the farmers in rural Japan, this is one of the busiest seasons of the year – preparing the fields for planting. Meanwhile, others are busy…
My sister-in-law facebooked some photos of niece and nephew chillin’ in the backyard pool with sun-bonnets, Hawaiian shirts, and inflatable palm trees. They are in Michigan. It is March. Meanwhile, Mona, Tomoe and I took a walk yesterday exploring one of the roads that goes out back behind the hamlet toward the mountain and out…
I have made it a point to upload and post on the same day as taking the photos in the interest of keeping accurate records so I can see next year what date it was this year that we picked and enjoyed eating our first fukinoto of the season. It was today. They were small, and probably…
I have a customer who ordered a customized budget self-guided bike trip from here to Hiroshima or Kyushu if time allows. The estimated one-month trip will have her camping out in parking lots and parks for much of the journey I just received a message from her telling me she is spending the night in…
Reruns of the year’s rice photos can only mean one thing… Yes, its rice selling time again! While we grew less than last year, we still have surplus of our almost organic, sun-dried, sandy soil, low-footprint fresh shinmai brown and white rice for sale.2kg – 1,500 yen + shipping*3kg – 2,000 yen + shipping*5kg – 2,800 yen + shipping*10kg –…
Not sure how it happened, but I seem to have completely missed the peak of fall colors here. Partly I was busy trying to look busy for our helper John. It was tough (in a good way) because I didn’t want to look lazy, so I had to keep both he and I busier than…