"Winter is an etching"

"Winter is an etching."

Reflection on the pond

Incidentally, 
"Spring is a watercolor

(click on the photo to enlarge)

summer an oil painting

and autumn a mosaic of them all."

Do you miss spring, summer, or autumn
or get inspired to go out to admire the simple beauties of winter?

It’s amazing how the simplest things can produce the most beautiful scenes.

An intense cold wave enveloped the Japanese archipelago, bringing heavy snow to a wide range of western and central Japan on the last weekend.  Even subtropical Amami Island observed snowfall for the first time in 115 years, but no snow here in Nara, although we felt chilled to the bone and gusty winds felt like a razor cutting through streets. It is forecast that it will be warmed up with rising temperatures higher than ten degrees C toward the weekend.