Fall Photos

I just spent six days taking out the tatami (straw mats) from our living room, and replacing it with boards I snagged from an old house that is being torn down tomorrow. Tomoe's dad was here to help me install the floor. I can't imagine how long it would have taken (or how crappy it would have looked) if he wasn't here to help and teach me. More photos of that coming up, but for now, just try to enjoy some photos I took yesterday morning for the Japan Farming Newspaper. (zen-nippon-nougyou-shinbun)

The photos of are some neighbors pickling Nozawana, daikon radishes, and a daikon-tsugura, which is made out of rice straw and used to store daikon through the winter, and persimmon in the compost - a common scene in November.