^ Great shots of the haystacks Jim and am happy to see Shaggy duck is starting to look better

I was looking at some old jpeg's and wondered when I took them. I found this site:

http://camerasummary.com/

There's a lot of info embedded in the file, more than I ever imagined.

I have the Firefox Exif Viewer extension installed. Allows me to check the Exif data of either my local images or of a web image as long as the data hasn't been removed due to PP.

Headed into the mountains today I had to stop and take a photo of "home-sweet-home" for someone.

"Hey Goompa " , " Stop making sand castles and come and give us a hand !"

Boss lady has decided that the corn patch is going to be the banana plantation.

Some nice shots there Ron .

Gonna be a whole stack of bananas there soon

Sugar Cane Ninjas

Now for something completely different ...I don't think anyone has shown a lemon grass farm yet!

This located on Samui!

Here is a small selection of photos from my first rice cultivation, I was with the whole process, plowing, sowing, planting, fertilization, harvesting, threshing and sale it was a pretty good learning experience. at the pictures you can see how the difference of rice that are fertilized and rice are not, mainly because I had the money for fertilizer.I must say that I often read about farang who complain about getting hurt after planting or harvesting rice, I had no problems :-) but it was of course only 4 Rai

KBK

Knowing that they had been rice harvesting in Mahahsrakham,one of my Uncles head over there with his rat traps.

One nights trapping,200 rats caught.....cooked up they sell for 100Baht for four rats,5000 baht for one nights work

is not bad going.....all of them were sold the next day.

Rat production line,boiling,cleaning and cooking.

BBQ'ed rat anyone?

and of course my little rugrat

Finally found someone using their farm shelter

The 1st 50 plants are in and more will be planted as they become available. We had a bonus the night before last and yesterday when 30 - 40 ml of rain fell hopefully giving the plants a good start.

A couple of "Farm Salas"...... in Pai area....

(no one came up with a better name for them yet!)

Hello All

I agree with Ron being the name gradtop

Some folk have different pronunciations depending where they are , I mean locality wise

My wife says that if it is a rice farm it / they are known as Dtiiang naa

Loosely translated as Dtiiang ( bed or room ) Naa ( rice paddy )

Maybe I am of no help

Hello All

I agree with Ron being the name gradtop

Some folk have different pronunciations depending where they are , I mean locality wise

My wife says that if it is a rice farm it / they are known as Dtiiang naa

Loosely translated as Dtiiang ( bed or room ) Naa ( rice paddy )

Maybe I am of no help

Thanks for bringing this up.I didn't know but can understand that there are different words for the same thing in different parts of the country.The same thing happens in Australia.

Cherry Tomatoes need a lot of water , something I neglected to let why wife know .

Henceforth the outcome you can see here , ah well , can try again , she kept the seeds

^ yeah they look like sun dried Toms there Goompa!....

They should look more like this...

Here's another Farm Sala, .... a bit weather beaten.... down in the rice paddies of Songkhla!

Not sure if this was a Sala..... or a perch especially made for the birds! ....

Beautiful photo Jimmy !

" Wise Hawk "

Thanks Goompa!

This really lost a lot of clarity in downsizing the image to fit the page here!

But the paddling just about finished! ^ The images above were behind me!

ready for seedling...

I seemed to lost the images of the ladies, who appeared to scatter the seed!

On the way home... (Ban Khaw, Songkhla)

The Farm Festival on the Hill, here in Chiang Rai......................Well, it does have the word farm in it.

Jasmine....how can so much fragrance come from such a small flower?

This is our friend and nieghbours Jasmine garden.The buds are picked early in the morning before they open and

are sold to flower shop in the next town from us.They are then used in making ornate displays and garlands.

The Jasmine garden

A close up of one of the Jasmine plants

The good lady herself harvesting her Jasmine buds.....and giving old Shags a friendly wave

Classy shack

A very well made Bamboo hammock...

Installing a trickle irrigation system in the paw paw patch

A new tea shot from yesterday.