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Sep 18 2017 8 Comments

The zen-like calm of a Japanese scarecrow?

Or contentment perhaps due to the impending harvest and the sense of a job very competently done.

Japanese scarecrow

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  1. Al says

    9/18/2017 at 1:37 pm

    Ha, love the expression! Awesome sky too! 🙂

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    • Lee says

      9/18/2017 at 7:03 pm

      Thanks! Yeah, got very lucky with the sky. Doubly so as it didn’t rain.

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  2. Mareva says

    9/18/2017 at 4:08 pm

    This expression combined with the sky is everything! Kind of “the day after tomorow” thing.

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    • Lee says

      9/18/2017 at 7:05 pm

      Yeah, definitely. Heading out I was disappointed the sky wasn’t blue like forecast, but in the end it turned out much better.

      Good call. Hadn’t thought of it like that. That’s very much the feeling.

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  3. cdilla says

    9/18/2017 at 6:09 pm

    What a beautiful green.
    The angle makes it look like you are taking care to avoid it’s gaze.
    It’s amazing how little it takes to make something look human.

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    • Lee says

      9/18/2017 at 7:08 pm

      Yeah, the heat and humidity may well be horribly oppressive, but we are treated to some very vivid colours.

      I know eh? Quite unsettling really. I’d hoped to get much closer, but this year all the interesting ones were at least a few metres into the fields, and attempting to wade in for a shot simply wasn’t an option!

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  4. Ron says

    9/20/2017 at 5:13 am

    Are these things actually here to scare crows / birds? Here in BC, they use scarecrows, aluminum pans, boom cannons, etc and the crows / starlings just ignore them. Maybe they are more of a representation of Kuebiko, to bring good harvest?

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    • Lee says

      9/20/2017 at 6:49 pm

      That’s a good point. I’ve just alway assumed they were simple scarecrows, but they may not be.

      One thing I have noticed is that they don’t make an appearance until quite late in the summer — not that long before the harvest. Now whether that means the crop is in the most danger then, or that they are there for less practical reasons, I don’t know.

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