My Energy Source — Red Plants(1) In this cold and gloomy1 weather (Luckily the last two days haven’t been so cold.), there was one plant that kept me saying "Wow!" all through2 the season. Why? Because it stayed bright red3 all the winter. The color of its leaves [...]
Snow Snow Snow! We had such an amazing snow storm1, huh? Adults were busy clearing2 snow from the roads, and kids were busy making snowmen and snow huts. Our neighbors’ kids made 2 snow huts and proudly showed them to me. Of course too much snow makes our life hard, but if [...]
A GRAND DAY OUT1 （by Will) I’m not a big fan of winter. This old house is COLD, and I’m not a skier. But there is one thing that trumps2 all that: BIRDS. In Sendai, there are no birds (at least in the lowlands) in the summer. Spring and [...]
Autumn in town Burning red … … and golden yellow against the blue sky. In town, the scenes are changing every day. The leaves of trees which will all fall off1 in a couple of weeks are really showing their last moment art show. [...]
Winter Birds 2 (written by Will) Did you know we have 4 Crows1 in Sendai? Two of them you see every day. The Jungle Crow and the Carrion Crow. Maybe I’ll talk about the difference between them some other time2. This time I want to talk about their cousins [...]
