VG.. That is intense! Looks more like a painting with that color saturation and symmetry. Great photo.

VF.. That is intense! Looks more like a painting with that color saturation and symmetry. Great photo.

Thanks. It got cloudy later after we ate but when we got there it was beautiful. Checkout the restaurant thread in the Chiang Rai forum to see the new restaurant at Rai Boon Rawd.

Here is a more colorful angle, just to the right of the other shot.

^ What are the pink flowers there VF? it will help Shaggy in his plant ID lessons! ..... and me in this case!!!!

Sunset over the rice paddies, Songkhla...

^ What are the pink flowers there VF? it will help Shaggy in his plant ID lessons! ..... and me in this case!!!!

Sorry to say I don't know what the pink flowers are called. They also had fields of yellow flowers they referred to as Tua Brazil but that didn't sound right to me so I am not sure.

We have been having a few evening thunder showers in our area with the rice about a week from harvest. The thunder storms cause micro bursts that can do a lot of damage to the rice, but it should be okay this late in the season as the combine will pick it up. Every morning after the night storms, I see the farmers going to the fields at dawn to assess the damage. Just a bit in the last few days, but last year it was very bad. A micro burst will come straight down and flatten the rice. I've seen it take down trees over several acres in the mountains of Idaho.

^ What are the pink flowers there VF? it will help Shaggy in his plant ID lessons! ..... and me in this case!!!!

Sorry to say I don't know what the pink flowers are called. They also had fields of yellow flowers they referred to as Tua Brazil but that didn't sound right to me so I am not sure.

It looks like sunn hemp to me.

This is a photo of my beautiful Thai Daughter , Fai with her niece Om , taken in Loei 2007

Time goes by so quick , My do they grow !

This is her today !

Ooops . sorry granny . got mixed up in there

Try again na .

This is my beautiful daughter now !

Sorry folks I went of on a different Tangent there , but hey . that's the Goompa !

Hope you can forgive an old man .

Uncle's rice field

This is the view from the bottom end of the families rubber farm.

Mixture of crops including cassava,rubber trees,corn and rice.

The canal system in the Ranot area of Songkhla, is huge.... mostly for the rices paddies, but more and more each year for Palm Oil plantations!

every once in a while they have to dredge out the accumulated crap!

This canal links up with Thali Noi, from Ban Khaw, five or six kms! ... great for birds too!

One day I will try to find out when all these canals were put in... it's quite a network! .... and not just fish nets

Bee at work... an ant too! Today...

this is a whoop-pa...!

and a few that have been picked... I guess the shoes are Sole food!

The tips of the almost three meter sugarcane blowing in the wind.

Rice planting

This is the members of the same family that I posted in post #2602.

The rice plants were pulled from one paddy and then planted in another

paddy the other side of the road.

^ I almost broke out in song.... with "Sugar Sugar" .... "Honey Honey" .... "you are my candy girl".....

Weren't those sung by the Red Hot Chilly Peppers ?

When they were young?

Did I just hear a big groan..... ?

Somewhere in tobacco farming land..

I caught on the atmosphere on this one, RonRice is sugar..

hi shaggy,

not to leave your tred out heres some pics mac took of the loy katong, or what ever it was the other night,,lol

she say i do for you daring,,

bless her shes bloody brillient,

jake

ps and a couple of some pigs that mac has picked out to bread from

^ Cheers Jake for the photos,although not sure what happened with them because they won't expand to full size.

Great to hear you are going to starting breeding your own stock again.....looks like Mac has got things nicely covered

^^ Lovely shot of the tobacco farm DAL and I like your little song,but would rather hear Jim singing it !!!

Farm dog taking some shade from the sun under some drying reed grass

Rice and sugarcane growing at the back of our home.

The surge of the coconut farmers on Samui and KP... Red Beetle!

Look at the coconut thread for more images!....

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/682515-coconuts/

Opps!!!! meant to say scourge not surge! above^ too late to edit

Keeping with coconuts... a husking area... SE Samui!

Here's the banana plantation all done with 160 planted.

Planting Sugar cane

Tractor makes it a lot easier

OMG...What happened to the chooks?

They got wet last night in a rain storm.

'And now they're catching a few rays.

So laid back.

RIRs I bought from Thomas in September.

Regards.

telitiger how can I like a post like that !

Your chooks ok ?

Very distressing to view