Spring?

The last week had been really warm. I took it down from long johns to tights and even got overheated walking to the train station. Bugs are showing up everywhere, and our flowers are starting to peak through the soil.

So imagine my surprise to find a blanket of snow this morning. And now Tajima is on a snow warning.

Apparently the Japanese government is considering officially acknowledging the heavy snowfall this year. Something like "Heisei 18 Snowfall" [18 being the current year of the Heisei emperor's reign]. Some dozen places in Japan had record snowfall this year, and there were over 100 deaths.