winter – Tower of Air

Cold Winter

A frozen pond with reed in the foreground, forest on the other shore. While there's shadow over the pond, the trees are in full sunlight.

After most of January was fairly warm, the weather has been freezing cold with wonderful sunshine since about a week. A stream in the woods next to my university is frozen solid, the ponds nearby are at least partially frozen, but there’s no snow. Today I took the opportunity to take some photos. Enjoy! IContinue reading “Cold Winter”

Fish, Ice and Chocolate – Seeing Snow, part 3

We didn’t get up as early as planned on this day (see part 1 and part 2 for the days before), but around 8 am we reached Odori park, where we could see people cleaning freshly fallen snow from the sculptures. I missed this sculpture the night before because we didn’t go to the easternContinue reading “Fish, Ice and Chocolate – Seeing Snow, part 3”

Icicle and Letter

About good and bad sides of winter in Sendai. And what’s with the letter? Read to find out!

First snow in Sendai

Yesterday around noon a few snowflakes started falling from an almost blue sky. When I wanted to return home from the university in the evening, a noticeable amount of snow was lying on my bicycle, and this morning the roofs I can see from my window where white. Luckily there was no ice on theContinue reading “First snow in Sendai”