I've asked around and can find no one who knows why the farmers plant a field of cosmos after they harvest their rice. I'm guessing its some kind of crop rotation/soil rejuvination or something (i know SO much about farming afterall) but everyone just says the same farmers do it every year to make the town beautiful. And they're right, it makes my bike rides around Hatasho, to the Echigawa train station, to Liquor Mountain, and everywhere in between so much more fabulous. The other day i just had to be that girl (who i am virtually daily) and stop at the field, get off my bike, take a few late afternoon shots of the flowers, and go 'prancing' around the pink, fuscia, and white fields. It was really glorious.
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it reminds me of Augustine's house in the movie version of everything is Illuminated. except the flowers in the movie are yellow, and there's no house in your pic. but you get the idea. i like it. they don't do that here.
Planting lotus flower is good for the soil, however planting sunflowers and cosmos are only done to make it look prettier on lying fallows.
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