No big higanbana fields, but they're still here!

BigFamJapan recently wrote about one of fall's iconic flowers, higanbana, or spider lilies. We don't have any large-scale fields of higanbana out here in Niigata -- at least none that I'm aware of -- but they do show up in some more understated ways. I've seen them here and there on grounds of temples and shrines, in the gardens of my neighbors, and even a smattering of them surrounding some of the local rice fields.

They're not large-scale fields, but I feel like they have beauty in their own right!

When I lived on a military base in Tokyo for a couple of years, we had one lone higanbana that bloomed in our small yard. I still don't know how one lone flower ended up there (we didn't plant it ourselves!) but we looked forward to it blooming annually each September. It really did feel like a sign that autumn had arrived!

Do you have any large higanbana fields near you, or are they a little more understated like in my local area?