Outside the City

Additional photos from today's bike ride. It doesn't take long before this:

Turns into this:

Which is rapidly followed by this:

The whole process would then play out again in reverse if you went far enough, only there'd be a different city name on the sign.

It's getting very close to harvest time for the rice. Lots of people are out working, but a saw a pair of guys actually going about the harvesting. They had a machine that looked like a swamp zamboni, or maybe a swamp floor waxer? It drove through the stalks heavy with rice leaving only a bristle above the water line in its wake.