I'd love to be there in the snow. Tthese pictures make me homesick for America, Switzerland and England(Yes, that's home to me!). I don't miss shovelling the snow though. You got it right there! Snow shovelling is a man's job. A woman's job is to make a snowman while the men shovel their guts out!
A reply to your comment: I love 'nuj' too. Since that day when she had to take that call and speak TINGLISH and get laughed at, she insised that everyone spoke English to her. Now, eight months passed, she is a very fluent communicator and she does all the English correspondence for her boss( a perfectionist who refuses to speak anything but Japanese).