This is what happens when your in-laws get on T' Internet...

... They start sending you pictures of weird shit. Actually these pictures of rice paddy art from Japan are pretty cool, I think.

It started in Inkadate, where 15,000 square metres is now under artistic cultivation, but is spreading to other areas. No dye is involved.

 It's achieved by precision planting of yellow, purple and green varieties of rice.

They're plotted from temporary towers because they're hard to see from ground-level.

And some of them are pretty big! After all this of course, they get harvested and eaten.

Talking of rice ... try out the vocabulary quiz on Free Rice. It costs you nothing (but watch out, it's addictive!) and it donates rice to the World Food Programme. What's your score?