1.   The first shell, fired from Pakistani positions just over the nearby mountains, landed in the terraced rice paddy just below the house.

2.   The land was lush, framing terraced rice paddies.

3.   The tour focuses on scenic rides along the coast of the Noto Peninsula, with its fishing villages, terraced rice fields and limestone formations.

4.   Below lay terraced rice paddies engraved into the hill like emerald corduroy.

5.   For local officials from a farming county of terraced rice paddies, the gesture demanded muscle and risk.

6.   For local officials from a farming county of terraced rice paddies, it was a gesture that demanded muscle and risk.

7.   On all sides were terraced rice fields and coconut palms, and the scene was one of pastoral serenity.

8.   What used to be lush, green terraced rice fields and gardens of papaya and banana trees are now dirty brown and gray.