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  Hello, everyone! It’s really cold these days. I feel as if we live in the freezer! We shoveled the snow on the street several times, still take plants inside the entrance and I close the drain valve¹ every night.

  People feel it’s too cold to live, but there are some species² of creatures who don’t care about this climate³ — winter birds, including swans! Even on the coldest day, they swim around the river. Amazing! Here they are!
　

  These thoughts have changed the way I see the world around us so now I can enjoy this cold weather.

  On the kitchen window, there was an art work. An arabesque pattern showed up at night. We can enjoy it only when it is super cold. Actually, when I was a kid, I used to see it on the bathroom window in the winter. (The winter in Sendai have gotten milder because of global warming⁴. ) 

  Outside of our living room, birds were coming to the birder feeder, and we quietly enjoyed watching them. And also we found the red berries of Nanten trees looking nice in the snow.

 (but it’s hard to see them in this photo)

  A student of mine made a snow ball and a snowman and gave them to me!

  And even when I went to work at college on that snowy day, I enjoyed my achievement⁵ of getting to work on time! I usually feel going to work is just a routine⁶. A normal boring thing can be a bit special! lol

  It’s fun to experience something different!