This weekend I've been in full hibernation mode- its much nicer to watch the snow showers from the warmth of my fleecy blanket and toasty apartment than being out in them. I realised I've been very bad at updating my blog- I barely got started and my friends arrived from the UK and I went on holiday round Japan. We had a great time visiting the sights, a busy 2 weeks. I got back to work and found I had been missed. So I've spent the last 2 months catching up and making up for taking 10 days holiday. I don't think it bothered me last year, but this year the small amount of holiday has been hard. Anyway,
lurking round my apartment I figured I may aswell update this blog. Its gone from Autumn to winter in the past week. All the last remaining leaves fell with the first snow last week and this week, we got our first good snowfall. The first picture is on Hokkaido University campus (where I work) about 3 weeks ago. The Ginkyo tree avenue is one of the popular photograph spots in Sapporo (for Japanese anyway).
This is the view this week.
I'm glad its thawing a little now, so I've got chance to get more prepared for the long winter months- I've a pair of ice grips now for crossing the streets. My ski gear is being sorted, I started to learn to ski last year so I'm looking forward to learning some more.
