September 4, 2009
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Looking out our kitchen window around lunch time, I discovered a circle of people in front of our neighborhood vegetable stand. As it turns out, they were filming for the Japanese cable TV channel WoWoW. I’ll try to find … Continue reading
June 17, 2009
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> Our vegetable stand man pulled some onions and tied them together to sell. That dark plastic thing is a shower stool. Some people use them to sit while they wash themselves before getting into the bathtub. He’s using it … Continue reading
May 27, 2009
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This is the field behind our house. This farmer put straw mats between his rows of corn. Click on the picture to see what is in his truck. Here he is getting something from the van. His helper … Continue reading
May 26, 2009
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Here’s our vegetable stand man working in his onion field. The corn on this side of that path (in the foreground) belongs to another farmer. These pictures were taken from our roof garden. Click on them to enlarge them. … Continue reading
April 2, 2009
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The net is off the field now and look how the leaves have grown! There are flowers as well. Click on the picture to enlarge it. It is a field of rapeseed or canola. The leaves are edible, but … Continue reading
March 17, 2009
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March winds blew the net off the field of greens. Can you see the two birds that are taking advantage of the winds? Click on the picture to enlarge it.
February 4, 2009
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Bad weather must be coming. The farmer in the field behind our house covered his field of greens. Those are his footprints near the knots. Those are big knots! It wasn’t long ago when these greens were covered in … Continue reading
December 19, 2008
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December 16, 2008
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> This is called zuiki imo, the stems (kuki) of a potato plant, yatsugashira. The potato is a big potato that is eaten at New Year’s. I’ll be on the lookout to get a picture of it. Baba told me … Continue reading
December 13, 2008
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That’s zuiki imo on the left and leeks on the right. On the top shelf: cabbage, Chinese cabbage, bag of taro middle shelf: turnips, spinach, broccoli bottom shelf: leeks, daikon (Japanese radish) Yesterday, children were walking home carrying daikon, … Continue reading