Sunday, July 08, 2007

Riding Through Tea Fields

Living in Japan affords many delights, not the least of which is green tea. We are fortunate enough, in fact, to live in Shizuoka Prefecture, which is a major producer of the country's green tea, and though little Susono isn't a prime contributor, we still enjoy the pleasure of occasionally riding through the tea fields before the harvest.

We went for a good ride this morning, bathed in sunshine and silence, and rediscovered an old route that we hadn't taken in ages. We were presently surprised to burst out of the woods and into the clearing:




1 comment:

bernicky said...

Wow that is totally cool. It looks like a beautiful ride. It is equally amazing that the farmers haven't put up barbed wire around their fields like they do here so no one can pass through their fields for any reason. Is the path you were riding on asphalt, concrete or packed earth?