Japanese lesson: Sugoi

   The Japanese have a word, すうごい, that means both "wonderful" and "terrible." It's often used as an exclamation, to be dramatic. Well, this week's snow is certainly dramatically beautiful:

   And, if you remember, this is what the gazebo that I put on the deck last summer looked like... last summer:

And, this is what it looked like this morning. すごい！！！

I said some stronger words than "sugoi" when I discovered this, you can bet that!