I hate winter here.  I was born and raised in the Arizona Sonoran desert and I’m just not used to the weather here in Iwaki, still.  My last attempt at a landscape was last December and it started snowing in the middle of the session.  To make matters worse, this place is super windy, almost always so even when the weather is good it’s not easy. Anyway, today was the first day this year worthy of going outside so I did so.  I had to grab the setup a few times when the wind caught the umbrella but managed to squeak this one out…