Saturday, November 8, 2008

The first day of winter


Nov.7th is the first day of winter by the old Jananese calender.

We have 24 different turning point of the season in a year.
The old Japanese named Beautiful name for each point.

Nov.7th is named Ritto,it means winter starts on this day.
Camellia sasanka begin to bloom and water begin to freeze.

We felt the season on the calender besides colored sight .