Thursday February 16, 2012

Full bloom

Full bloom
REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

A woman works in a field of flowers on Tomita farm in Nakafurano town in Hokkaido.

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    Sarge

    These beautiful scenes are always in Hokkaido.

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    Osakadaz

    Hokkaido is gorgeous all year but I bet the lavender farms look good.

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    Dewaashita

    Nice

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    Stillwater

    A must place to visit. Really beautiful!

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    Mexicanish

    Beautiful picture, but it'd be prettier w/o the lady in the background.

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    GW

    I dont know why so many love these man made flower fields around Jpn I wud prefer to find more natural settings, these flower foelds are boring after 5minutes

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    trustee

    heaven

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    30061015

    w/o the lady in the background

    Without the ladies in the background, there would be very little farming done in Hokkaido and that much less food on your plate.

    A woman works

    When you visit, you wont find a man doing this kind of field work.

    heaven

    With all the work to do by herself, no children left in the village and the harsh Hokkaido winters, She probably doest think so. Most of these inaka villages are dead or dying. This is why Jwomen refuse to marry farmers.

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    KallyPygous

    Why is that woman cleaning the earth with a dustbuster?

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    KallyPygous

    One of the reasons you see so many crippled old ladies in rural Japan must be that the handles of the tools are all too short.

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    30061015

    cleaning the earth with a dustbuster?

    From what I can tell, she is using an empty fertilizer bag to pick up weed roots, weed fragments and small stones. A common practice.

    crippled old ladies in rural Japan

    Most planted rice by hand when they were old enough, carrying heavy sacks of rice seedlings on their backs.

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    LoveUSA

    I would love to work in these beautiful fields instead of the obachan. During lunch break I will lay down in these fields and feel the aroma of the beautiful flowers and relax.

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