chez
Offline
• • • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
|
 p.9 #9 · p.9 #9 · Life on the Street - Post your Street Photography here | |
Ray Swindle wrote:
Chez, #11, the garden on the hill side by the water, reminds me of an apartment complex in Houston, TX. Vietnamese refuges inhabited most of the apartments, three two story units in a U shape with about 20 apartments each. Behind the apartments was a slope down to a bayou with about a half acre of land. It was a steeper slope than the one in your photo. The people in the apartment created a garden on that slope. I don't know how they kept from sliding into the bayou. The only way you can see the garden is from the bayou or the public golf course on the opposite bank. I grew up in that neighborhood and went to school from kindergarten through high school. I began playing the golf course in the 1990's, and that is when I saw the garden. They had winter and summer crops, and there were several people working the garden every day. It is amazing how they took advantage of every square inch to grow their own crops.
Oh, and yes, they had netting to keep the varmints out!
Ray...Show more →
The water buffalo is so important to many families ( it's something they save for years to purchase ) that during the cold winter days, they actually bring the buffalo inside their very small houses to keep them warm. The plots of land that are terraced for rice are passed along through generations...the larger the plot, the higher standing your family has in the community. When trekking through these rice patties, you can definitely see plots that are much easier to cultivate, which belong to higher standing families.
In a good year, a family will have a good crop and are able to sell some of their rice in order to buy other things for the family. In a bad year, they barely have enough to feed themselves.
|
