crop circles are for the unmotivated.

I've always been curious about the amount of effort put into things that the average person cannot see. Like the intricate patterns plowed into corn fields for corn mazes here in the US, the Japanese have a more productive version: multi-color rice fields.

"Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate in Aomori prefecture create works of crop art by growing a little purple and yellow-leafed kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed tsugaru-roman variety."

Few will ever see the amazing intricacy of the beautiful pattern that took many to plant oh so carefully, outside of a photograph, but it's still totally worth it.

via pinktentacle