Quintessentially Isaan (Photos)
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Today the locals are fighting and is always good viewing but not on your front entrance.
Don't see this everyday.
Don't see this everyday.
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Seems like a trip to the jungle market at ฺBan Hui Deuah (บ้านห้วยเดือ) is the perfect neighborhood to find another quintessentially Isaan photo. Today, on our way back to Kilo 18, near the market, we spotted this fella pulling a well-endowed boar behind his Honda Dream, probably on the way to/from making some gilt or sow a happy camper. I'd just love to see the reaction of some US cop to such a thing.
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My GF says that there have been quite a few butterflies around of late especially on her herb garden.
She got a shot yesterday of this big boy. Those buckets are at least 6 inches across.
Quite a nice specimen.
Any one else noticed Butterflies.
Take some photos if you have the time and submit.
A healthy garden environment will always attract critters like Butterfies and especially frogs.
She got a shot yesterday of this big boy. Those buckets are at least 6 inches across.
Quite a nice specimen.
Any one else noticed Butterflies.
Take some photos if you have the time and submit.
A healthy garden environment will always attract critters like Butterfies and especially frogs.
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Somewhere in my mass of google pics, I have several photos of butterflies taken in our yard over the years. Although this doesn't qualify as a butterfly, it's my favorite butterfly-like insect......an atticus atlas, atlas moth. A before and after photo. For some reason, the caterpillars only feast on our santol trees......the moths come out, mate, and fly away.
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You are 100 % right , this year has brought out a huge harvest of bugs, butterflies, bees, wasps, Etc. So much so that for the first year in a long time, the longan tree, the pomegranate tree, the passion fruit vines, the GAC fruit vines all bloomed and now bear fruits. The butterflies seem to affectionate the Butterfly bushes and the MOK ( Moke ) plants.
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Village Life.
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You can always tell when someone 'important' is going up in flames at the temple just down the way from our home. There'll be a boom....with a flutter of smaller booms, followed by a 8 or 9 gun salute of more big booms. A few days ago, at precisely 2:30ish (Thai time), the booms interrupted our otherwise peaceful Sunday afternoon.
Normal visible signs of a funeral are the small triangular foil flags that line the street approaching the temple. Only when we passed by the next day, we saw these quintessentially Isaan flowers, still looking as fresh as the day they were harvested.
Normal visible signs of a funeral are the small triangular foil flags that line the street approaching the temple. Only when we passed by the next day, we saw these quintessentially Isaan flowers, still looking as fresh as the day they were harvested.
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I was going to take a photo of the vendor at the jungle market dipping her hand into the cow placenta to give it a good stir.......but decided the photo below, taken at the same market, would be an equally good quintessentially Isaan photo.
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GF and mother in law are as happy as and are out on our land and took some photos of the bird life now coming back to our direct area.
Good to see as any wild life moving in be it butterflies, frogs, snakes and birds most likely means the ecology is in good condition.
I assume they are Storks, but there are other wader types in smaller numbers.
Must be some good grubs and food in the rice fields.
Good to see as any wild life moving in be it butterflies, frogs, snakes and birds most likely means the ecology is in good condition.
I assume they are Storks, but there are other wader types in smaller numbers.
Must be some good grubs and food in the rice fields.
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I think that's an Asian Egret part of the Heron family of birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_great_egret..
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The large black and white ones are Asian openbill storks,see large numbers of them soaring over the lake at nongsam rong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_openbill
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Stork sounds close,TAXIfor7/11 wrote: ↑September 25, 2017, 4:31 pmThe large black and white ones are Asian openbill storks,see large numbers of them soaring over the lake at nongsam rong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_openbill
We are at over the other side of the lake at nong samrong on the boundary of the water irrigation office, so you know where they land now.
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Barney, the birds will return.....assuming the villagers don't go out and kill anything that moves. We had to block villagers from going through our yard to the water area behind our house to hunt. Our neighbor did as well. Soon enough after, the birds returned. I have a 2 page word document with a wide variety of birds we've seen over the years.........if you'd like it, pm me with your email address and I'll send it to you.
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These are photos from a typical village cremation carried out in the open air of the local temple , where they do not have the facilty of a purpose built crematorium.
Ageing is a privilige denied to many .
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Nice photos, Val. Thanks.
Of the hundred++ funerals I've been to in Thailand, only two were similar. One here at the temple at kilo 18 in 1997. Another about 10 years ago in a small village near NKP. In both cases, villagers set up a stack of well-placed timbers and a tire.....and the coffin was placed on top of the pyre. A small stage was set up next to the coffin for family and friends to place flowers and spread coconut water over the body.
I quite like Thai funerals....both the traditional and non-traditional ones.
Of the hundred++ funerals I've been to in Thailand, only two were similar. One here at the temple at kilo 18 in 1997. Another about 10 years ago in a small village near NKP. In both cases, villagers set up a stack of well-placed timbers and a tire.....and the coffin was placed on top of the pyre. A small stage was set up next to the coffin for family and friends to place flowers and spread coconut water over the body.
I quite like Thai funerals....both the traditional and non-traditional ones.
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It's been a while......but today, not far from the back side of the jail, I saw a pair of police on a motorbike (police type) pull over a pickup, hoisted the driver out of the cab, handcuffed him, had a few words with him, then put him on the back of the motorcycle to head off to the police station. I managed the photo at the next light as the cop waited for the light to change.