It makes you appreciate
warmth ... and the effort, care and planning it requires. Plus .... freezing cause the environment to morph which is a factor to appreciate and exploit ...
This is by way of a
private topic, Shin, and I wrote you a PM on the subject but the Server 'ate it' without a trace .... so I'm raising it here.
Does the name "Anne of Green Gables" resonate with you in any small way - recognition - as a girl in Japanese popular fiction. She is the original plucky redheaded heroine of books written by a Canadian. Lucy Maude Montgomery was from Canada's east coast province of Prince Edward Island (PEI) and her books about Anne's adventures all take place on that island .... but she wrote them while living in Leaskdale, Ontario, the wife of the local Protestant Pastor.
Many tourists from Japan go to PEI every summer on a 'pilgrimage' ... to walk in the footsteps of Anne ... and eat fantastic seafood ...
But I drive through Leaskdale every trip north. Lucy's house (the church pastor's manse) and the original church are both heritage sites now ... and I sometimes see limos parked outside and imagine that tourists, possibly Japanese, have arranged to visit .... it would be about 2 hours from Toronto International airport.
If you're interested in the topic tell me and I'll take some snaps and post them. Unfortunately there's no seafood in Leaskdale ... lots of corm, canola and wheat ... but no PEI scallops. lobster or oysters
Let me know if you're curious Shin.
MM