Warm winter

Flower cabbage

Only a few days are left this year and a new year is around the corner.
We Japanese value 'the New year's holidays' very much as well as 'Bon holidays'.

We are making some new year's ornamens by rice plants.


It is very cold about this time of the year, but it isn't cold at all this winter.
It hasn't been snowing but raining since this afternoon.

The other day, I saw some snakes in my yard and two of them had been dead.
I think it strange that they aren't hibernating now.
That must be because of the warmth of this winter !