From the category archives:

Travel

How To Leave the Rat Race for the Trip of A Lifetime

October 7, 2009

“For every sin but the killing of Time there is forgiveness.”
- Unknown
Have you ever secretly dreamed of traveling the world?
Do you have a secret place of the globe you’ve always wanted to visit?
Planning for the trip of a lifetime is easy enough. It’s getting out of the rat race that’s the hard part.
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Rice Paddy Art at Harvest

October 26, 2007

I was looking for The Power of Duck, a book about incorporating duck husbandry into rice fields, when I found this:

Apparently, every year the Inakadate Village builds a rice paddy into an image. Using three unique strains of rice, they plot out a pattern using each strains specific color, and then painstakingly plant accordingly. [...]

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