Yesterday I took Greg to the park, and it started snowing. He was amused by it, but once I buckled him back into his childseat to go home, he got quiet and his nose started to turn red. He saw snow last year, but he wasn’t even one year old then, so he understands it better now. Today it snowed pretty hard, so that cold air is coming in from China. We read a Richard Scarry book that includes a snow scene, and when we got to that page, Greg pointed out the door to show he knows what snow is all about.

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This roasted sweet potato (yaki-imo) vendor in downtown kyoto has customers lined up outside his tiny shop. Japanese sweet potatoes (called satsuma imo before roasting) are purple on the outside.

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