It's fall in S. Korea: the weather is getting cooler, days getting shorter, the harvesting of the rice, the golden colors of fall all around...
The boys love this pic because it looks like Jesse is enjoying a chunck of my arm! He's not quite so mean, though, however fierce he'd like to think he is!!! :0 :) Then, I've been wanting to snap a picture of these cabbages growing all over for decoration. They make great fall colors!
A great shot of the rice to be harvested & landscape! Then the harvested rice fields.
If you can see past the blurriness, there is a rice harvester in the field. Most of the ones we've seen are 2 (sometimes 4) row headers. They're about a quarter of the size of the huge 16 rowers in IL now. New rice shoots are already sprouting from the earlier fields cut. I'm not sure yet if they will grow through the winter or if they are volunteer and will die with the coming of winter.
The background on this picture shows one patch of many transplanted trees found all over. They are held up with ropes until they re-ground again. I have not seen these large of trees attempted to be transplanted in these numbers before! At the front of this picture are hot red pepper plants.
The second picture gives you a shot of the traffic lights. All are turned this way, none vertical. And an interesting fact about the light sequencing here: okay it's green, Go! Then, yellow - yield (or hitting the gas works, too!) Finally, red - Stop! Wait.... Now the yellow light comes back on with the red - meaning "get set!" Then, green - Go! again. I'm beginning to like it. One can know when the light is about to change. However, we have also seen this scenario: green - go, yellow - maintain or speed up, red - keep on going if there's no cross traffic at the moment. Scared the daylights out of us the first time we were in a vehicle that went blithely gliding through! Should have seen the kids' eyes and heard their gasps of horror! Now, it's just "one of those things" that is different! And if you're wondering, yes - it's illegal. But in all our time here, we have only seen two people pulled over by the police. They drive on the offense, though, and seem to be pretty good drivers since we also don't see many accidents.
And, another shot of the bus to help you with the mental image picture.... Only one seat on each isle most of the way, with a double seat toward the back and one full seat for the last one (this is where the schoolkids usually hang out.) So if you are not one of the elderly and the bus is full, you get to stand and hold on overtop. Some nights on our way home from the library, the kids and I are squished in the middle of all of it. Last time, Jesse stayed on his feet by bouncing up against opposing people! The elderly get the first dibs. Then, mothers with babies or young children. After that, it is a whoever-gets-there-first for the rest available seat(s)! And if you are the unfortunate one to have sat in a prime seat that was open and then more elderly get on, then you are the one to give yours back up again. In this pic, we were coming toward the end of the line, so the bus was about empty.
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