The rice harvest

I am finally getting around to looking back over all my photos and making some collections.

This one is the rice harvest.

Depending on the field quality and how much rain a particular region gets, most rice fields will yield 2 or 3 harvests per year. All planting, picking and separating is done by hand. Although some towns did have thrasher machines to more easily get the rice off the grass.  

These women seemed to enjoy the distraction of photographs. They loved looking at the photos on the screen. 

I found it incredibly hot just looking at these ladies. Jeans, jackets, scarves, gloves and usually face masks all to keep the sun from making their skin darker.     

Every harvest field seems to have a spectators area

Shaking the rice from the stalks, letting it dry in the sun - often on tarps by equally often on the side of the road, and tossing it to separate the  husks as much as possible before loading into sacks 

The rice grass left to hay before being bundled up for water buffalo 

 The next morning we found another rice field to explore

the breakfast food van

next up I should have a collection of fishing photos!
let's wait and see how damn long it takes me to get them up now!