Ends and odds

 They have finished tearing down the rich guy's house and are ready to start construction on the new house. The tent with red and white stripes is where they had a Shinto ceremony to insure that things will go well.

 Here is how they left the inside of the tent after the ceremony. The chairs were for the family. A Shinto priest would have officiated. In front of the chairs there would have been a carefully crafted pile of sand. At the high point of the ceremony the rich guy would have taken a wooden hoe and pulled down some of the sand. I have never been to one of these ceremonies so I can not say much about the whole thing, however, I have seen videos of portions of many of them.

 This is the admin building in my complex. The men are putting the Christmas lights on the tree.

 Snow falling on the path from our complex to the river. Actually the path goes most of the way around the complex, giving the people with first floor apartments a garden view.

 Snow falling on the remaining cosmos.

A little snow does not keep the construction crew from working on the new banking for the Nanakita River.