We came across these ladies out on our bike ride. It's rice planting season again. They were in the process of transplanting the baby rice stalks from the starter area to the larger rice paddies. Not sure exactly why they do things this way, but that's the way they do it. When I asked if I could take a photo, I said that my father would find the photo interesting (god knows he took enough rice HARVESTING pictures, but wasn't here for the planting). They then asked why it would be interesting to him, don't people farm this way in America? I said no, but then realized I didn't really know how one planted and harvested rice in the US, or if rice is even grown in the US. So I followed up the no with stupid silence, then ventured that perhaps in America someone would use a tractor. Anyway, 4 women doing the backbreaking work in the sun. I imagine the menfolk were somewhere in the shade working on their 3rd or 4th beer of the day. It is Saturday, after all.