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Day 14 (January 21, 2000)
Harvest Time in the Country The roads in the countryside are full of activity. It's harvest time, and the streets are covered in hay for threshing by the wheels of traffic. Everyone is busy, even the sacred cows are harnessed and pulling carts full of hay and sugarcane. Water buffalo pull through rice fields, and people sort, shift, pull, and plant. This woman was one of many standing in the road, separating the wheat from the chaff in this timeless method, sprinkling it high from a woven basket and letting the breeze take the chaff away. Later, the wheatberries will be spread out on the asphalt and marked off by rocks or wood so that traffic doesn't run over it. BACK TO HOME |
