--arriving in Oregon December 24th; staying with my family in Eugene/Springfield
--traveling to Portland on December 29th; staying with ???? (anybody want to host me?)
--traveling to California on January 2nd; staying with family in San Jose
--returning to Japan on January 8th
The three pictures are from a walk I took a few weeks ago in Utsunomiya's Central Park. The leaves were just starting to change color at that point. Fall seems to come later here than in Oregon, but when the weather changed, it cooled off very quickly. The days now are in the mid 50s, mostly sunny, and the nights are quite cold.
