The rice grows

Remember all the photos of the newly planted rice? I do because it was just last week that I was marvelling over the strangeness of seeing rice fields. Yet, somehow, miraculously, in one week, the rice is almost ready to harvest. One week, three months; something like that. But I'm sure it's only been a week or two.

I hope when the time comes we are able to get photos of the actual harvesting.

We didn't take pictures at regular intervals, but here is a field in May:

And in July:

And now, it’s this....