The surface of the fields looks green because of duckweed.
In spite of the rainy season, it rains little these days .
In this district, there is no big river .
So farmers fill their rice-fields with water from some ponds and the brooks.
But the amount of water is very small and they sometimes fight because of the scramble for water.
Perhaps Japanese saying ’Ga-de-n i-n-su-i' came from this problem.
Now they are longing for rain!!
So. It is right.
In my country(Kyushu), there is an artificial river to lead water to a rice field.
In the bottom of the river, both sides become a bank more highly from a neighboring rice field.
Therefore it is easy to put water in a rice field.
I learned that we call such a river "Tenjyo-gawa"(天井川).
See you,
But anyway, The view of the wide rice fields with mountains beyond them makes me feel good.
There are some "Tenjyo-gawa" in Okayama too.
And I have ever seen it before.
By the way, it was fine today too.
The amount of water in the pond or dam a is becoming less.
We are really worrying about the water problem.
I'm glad you feel good to see my picture of rice
fields.
I'll take pictures of them from now on.
See you!!