sakura eggs and some snow

I am amazed by the eggs in Japan.

There are the usual white ones and brown ones. And most times the yolks are bright orange and huge!

Whenever I need eggs, I go to the market and buy whatever is the cheapest.

At this particular market, their cheapest were these eggs...198 yen (about US$1.98) for 10.

I think metric system countries sell their eggs in tens, and only the US sells them by the dozen.

These were packaged in a pink plastic container and had sakura (cherry blossom) written on the outside.

In Japan, all eggs (that I've bought) are packed in plastic, not the cardboard/styrofoam containers like the US.

It is good because you can see right into the container to see if they are cracked. You can't open the container because it is sealed (so no trading off broken eggs).

My rant with the plastic egg containers is that only 1 market in my area recycles the containers. I think if you sell them, you should recycle the containers too.

Anyway, when I took a couple of these out for breakfast one morning, I was intrigued because the shells had a slightly pinkish color to them, maybe that is why they call them sakura??

I think the container says that the feed has some sugar cane and marigold extracts added to them.

It didn't affect the taste, but made for something interesting, don't you think?


Last Saturday morning we had a little snow storm. It lasted all of 5 minutes.

I know, I know, nothing like what the rest of the world is experiencing.

Even though the sun came out soon after and melted everything, it was exciting to see.

Then again in the evening, we had some more snow. This is what the garden area in front of our building looked like.

I should have gotten some shots of the cars in our area, they had quite a bit piled on their hoods.

Again, nothing like what everyone around the world is experiencing, but I enjoyed this.