Yesterday (Saturday), after the weekly house cleaning, and cleaning up some window panes(it was cloudy and the best condition to clean the pane, I wanted to clean all the windows but did not have enough time) I left home for the music hall. It's in the popular shopping area near the port, there were may people enjoying the shopping or just strolling around and looking at the Xmas decorations. The town was full of the merry mood of December.



I don't dislike such festive atmosphere, but dislike the crowded shopping mall :( , passed through the shopping area and went to the hall to enjoy the concert of classical music. The program was Beethoven's Symphony No.9. I don't know why but here in Japan this symphony is performed quite frequently in this time of year so "the concert of Symphony No.9" arouses the end of the year festive mood. The performance was so so, not the best but this is one of my favorite symphony so I felt quite good after the concert :)



Then I met a friend to have supper together. The food and chatting with a friend were good. It was a good afternoon and evening. Though when we left the restaurant we noticed the slight rain, and the coldness. With rain it was really cold:( It has kept raining all night it seemed, when I woke up this morning (Sunday) it's still raining. Today I was going to do some garden task but it's wet and cold, I gave up my plan and did some indoor housework. It's cold, one of our garden cat was miaowing miserably for a while outside of the window...



"Let me in..."

Then he gave up and seemed to get into the cardboard boxes (which I have put on the wooden verandah some time ago) with other cat (or cats ... I couldn't see how many in the box XD).



Behind the white cat I could see the ear of another cat in the box XD

It's cold all day today still some leaves in our garden showed beautiful color. The early winter...

For a few days the weather forecast has warned the coldness on Friday and weekend. They were right. This morning it’s sunny but windy, and cold! I wore many layers of warm clothes still when I left home I felt it’s “cold”, not “chilly”! Something has changed in the air, now I feel the winter has come…

On workday I set the alarm clock at 6am. Though, in this time of an year around 6am it's still dark, thus it's difficult to wake up comfortably, I feel like it's almost against the humanity to wake up before the sunrise !! :( And, sunset is around 16:30 - short days! When the season is changing from autumn to winter, I tend to think that it's still late autumn... but now I notice it's already winter though there remain many fruits on my persimmon trees in the garden. The red and yellow leaves are falling, when we don't have sunshine it's quite chilly and gloomy. This morning I walked to the office beyond the hill, and from the hilltop I saw Mt.Fuji far away, and its top was covered with snow. Now the real winter is coming...

My friend K likes frogs, both of the real ones and frog shaped stuff, like I like geckos. Thus, when I go out with her and find something with frog motif ... we often do this.



Taking a photo with the frog! XD

I always put the small flower vase on the windowsill of the bathroom. Not the expensive flowers but the flowers or leaves from our own garden. For weeks I have enjoyed the chrysanthemum flowers in it, but now they began to wither, maybe this is the last chrysanthemum display in the autumn...



But I also like put the small twig or leaves in the small vase like this X)



I like having these small pieces of the nature in my house :)

Yesterday, on Friday I took a day off from the office and went out with my friend. We enjoyed one day trip to some hot spring, not very far from Yokohama. It’s in the suburban area, there are some small Japanese style hotels with hot spring. The hot spring was nice, and also, we saw many trees with red and yellow leaves - now those autumn colours were going, soon the leaves would fall, though they were beautiful enough.







It was a nice holiday :)