Full bloom

These beautiful scenes are always in Hokkaido.

Nice

A must place to visit. Really beautiful!

Beautiful picture, but it'd be prettier w/o the lady in the background.

I dont know why so many love these man made flower fields around Jpn I wud prefer to find more natural settings, these flower foelds are boring after 5minutes

heaven

w/o the lady in the background

Without the ladies in the background, there would be very little farming done in Hokkaido and that much less food on your plate.

A woman works

When you visit, you wont find a man doing this kind of field work.

heaven

With all the work to do by herself, no children left in the village and the harsh Hokkaido winters, She probably doest think so. Most of these inaka villages are dead or dying. This is why Jwomen refuse to marry farmers.

Why is that woman cleaning the earth with a dustbuster?

One of the reasons you see so many crippled old ladies in rural Japan must be that the handles of the tools are all too short.

cleaning the earth with a dustbuster?

From what I can tell, she is using an empty fertilizer bag to pick up weed roots, weed fragments and small stones. A common practice.

crippled old ladies in rural Japan

Most planted rice by hand when they were old enough, carrying heavy sacks of rice seedlings on their backs.

I would love to work in these beautiful fields instead of the obachan. During lunch break I will lay down in these fields and feel the aroma of the beautiful flowers and relax.