A large puddle overgrown with grass - Ojiya City, Niigata Prefecture (June 23-24, 2005)
Lily saw a rice paddy for the first time.
This is a rice field one week after the rice planting was completed.
Volunteer work to restore terraced rice fields damaged by the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake.
The rice planting had just finished, but the fields were still lush and green.
Apparently, modern rice transplanters also spread fertilizer and herbicides at the same time as planting the rice.
Lilies are safe because herbicides become inactive as soon as they come into contact with the soil.
'Dad, that's a big puddle!''It's called a rice paddy.'
'Can I come in?''No!'
"It feels so good to be in such a wide open space.
There were so many birds singing this morning that I woke up before 5am."
'Thanks to that, Dad is sleep-deprived.'
Lily also stayed at Mr. Taniguchi's house.
This family also had a miniature dachshund named Cookie, but I only met her once.
Cookie wouldn't stop crying, so she was taken upstairs.
Lily looks happy after being taken for her morning walk.