Paddy fields

The first thing I spotted when we reached this are on our return journey from Khajuripadar was a group of water buffaloes, grazing in a harvested paddy field.



Then I noticed a solitary man, working away at the irrigation retaining banks with his mattock.  It looks really hard work and I can't imagine doing that sort of work in the heat of the Indian sun. 

Then I turned round to look at the other side of the road and saw large groups of women coming out of the irrigated paddy fields, newly planted with the second crop of the season.

It was an extrardinary sight, great splashes of colour as the women, all dressed immaculately in their brightly coloured saris made their way back to the road along the tracks on the tops of the banks at the end of their days work.

They asked me to take their photo when they gathered at the roadside.  I'm only sorry that I'll never see any of them again as I'd love to be able to hand out prints of these photos to the beautiful subjects.

Heading off home at the end of a hard day's work.