sub-freezing kanuki...
by mikka
... is a bit more desolate than usual, but still gorgeous: photos are from yesterdays climb to the top, with two of my students - neither of whom had visited Kanuki before!
There fewer cats and people along the way; I suspect the cats waited in warmer areas till they were certain any visitors had food with them. We didn't, so they left us alone.
Kanuki at sunset is a good idea in theory, though maybe not on days where the wind chill pushes the temperature below freezing. The photo above was one of the last times I could take off my mittens.
Afterwards, much cake and coffee was required to warm up. Above is The Blue Water, which vies with B-House for my favorite source of cake in Numazu .
Now that Sari and Kate have headed back to the States, we are settling back into our normal routine, though our weekends have now taken on a faintly urgent pitch - with only two and a half months left, there's suddenly so much to see that we've lazily neglected for our entire time here. Even though the cold outside makes me want to spend all my free time inside knitting in front of our kerosene heater, I'm all too aware that time slips by all too fast here, and so we are definitely trying to get out and explore as much as much as possible before it's time to pack up.
