Farmtown/ Farmville in Misawa during Winter

Hay stacks covered with snow

Hay stacks

Rice Field covered with snow

Greenhouse

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These photos were "drive-by shots" along Misawa after the snow fall. I'm speechless right now, my hubby has been deployed to one of the countries in Middle East and can't think of anything to say just.....enjoy my photos!

Rice Fields

Rice

Ricefield in front of our house

Haystacks

Another Haystacks

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The last 2 photos are snap shots while driving around Misawa, haystacks are now lined up, most of the rice were harvested already. This was taken last October, I've been busy lately and was not able to post these pictures.

Planting of Rice, Misawa

Finally, rice were planted!!!

Here's the video I took when Japanese farmers were planting rice in front of our house.




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Friday Shootout- WATER

Friday Shootout is WATER.

Once again here's the brief overview of Misawa:

The City of Misawa is located near the northeast tip of the Japanese main island of Honshu in Aomori Prefecture. It is a town with a population of about 44,000, in which the Pacific Ocean lies to its east, picturesque Lake Ogawara to the west.



That means we have plenty of water too! Browse and enjoy my photos.



Rice fields filled with water in front of our house, after sunset


Another shot


Rice fields, the farmers are starting to plant the rice (by machine)


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Last Monday, Memorial holiday in US [yes, we had our holiday too even we're in Japan, we are still Americans anyway who happened to live in Japan hehehe], we got a lot of oysters from a river that I forgot the name :-) .....[again hehehe]. I need to ask my friend what's the name of this river and we need to come back here to get more oysters.


A man was fishing


Oysters in the bottom of water





A rock full of oysters and the background of course is water....where we got this rock :-)


A bucket filled with oysters and of course we put some cold "water"


part of the river, shallow one


My son looking for some clams, the water was very cold


My son and his friend looking for clams and crabs




A drive-by shot after digging some oysters from this river

Some boats as I spotted while we're driving back home from the river

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Misawa Beach - part of Lake Ogawara which is located on base. I just had my blog about Misawa beach and some some of the photos are here again.


swing

Misawa beach during afternoon

walking along the beach


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Domo Arigato! Thank you very much!

Rice Fields in Spring

It's spring now!!! Let's take a look at our front yard :-) ....the rice field!




Spring (April 2009)- plowing of rice fields in front of our house


I think I have to wait for the "planting of rice"

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Let's compare the 4 seasons in Misawa using the rice fields as the subject :-)


Summer of 2008, it was the end of July when we moved in our new house and saw the rice field!! I was so excited and grabbed my compact camera and took this shot.



Summer- rice were planted




Fall- sowing; after a week I took this shot again; the tractor (whatever they call that) is separating the rice from the hay and transferring the rice to the other tractor.



Fall (Oct 2008)- hay stacks




Winter- rice fields covered with snow


One of the yellow houses is our house and you can see the distance of our house to rice field :-) the one lane street separates us from the rice fields.

The tree, the barn and the rice field with snow

This was taken yesterday morning, the sun finally did show up (and even today yahoo!!!). I have to shovel a bit of snow from our driveway and saw this view from our house and so I grabbed my camera and took this shot. I'm just starting to familiarize with my new camera and I was testing my settings here and I don't know if this is a nice shot, for me it was hehehe.

If you will notice behind the tree is a shinto shrine and you will also see the barn. The left side is the rice field. There are lots of shinto shrine here in Misawa and even I live close by this shrine I don't know how people worship there. I don't see a lot of people coming in and out there and there's no parking area too.

Harvest Time

When I was walking early morning along the farm fields I noticed that a lot of rice have been harvested already and it's pretty cute to see a lot of haystacks lining up in the field. I wonder what are they gonna do after piling all those hays???