Spring

After a couple of false starts, and disappointing backslides, it appears that spring is finally here. It's funny, though, mornings are dark grey, cool, kind of foggy but by 9:00 it is glorious.

I thought this called for an agricultural update. I have told you that I am in a very rural area (or as my brother says "Karen's time in Green Acres"), and the second rice crop is now in. In between the fileds grew something else -- vegetables, sunflowers, garlic, etc. but now it is rice again. It isn't quite as backbreaking as it used to be. The small plants come in a roll like turf and a tractor kind of thing lays out the roll. Then they flood the paddies.

It's quite nice, actually. The plants are a lovely green color and egrets come and walk up and down the ropws. The only bad part is that at night there are frogs that are loud enough to keep me awake and all this standing water brings mosquitoes.