 This man is making puffed rice. He cooks the dry rice in a pressure cooker and "explodes" it into a mesh cage. Here he is mixing a sugar syrup into the puffed rice. |
 This is a ring toss setup where you can try to win a vegetable. Yoshiko and Tsukiko both missed, but Steve won a tomato |
 Kimura-san took us in his car to our next destination - Tsuruoka and Abe-san's farmhouse in Ebishima. On the way we passed through the mountains of the Dewa Sanzen area. Here is some pampas grass growing along the roadside. |
 Tsukiko and Yoshiko standing by the pampas grass |
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