The Heaviest Snow ever this year

As far as I could see that day...hmm last week, was it on Monday..4 Feb or 5 Feb. 2013...I was not sure. Gosh, how could I easily forget about it. Got to check it out on my phone when I took these pictures...but .. 

that's not important. I was walking from taking Eyra to school and deliberately I was going into my campus to check how it was...and these are the pictures I took while...walking back home. 

Snow-covered bushes and plants...they looked pretty amazing to me. to some, they may look trivial..a trivial picture, but as for me..it was indeed a picturesque one. 

Taken from the stairs that I always use on my way home from campus.. 

This path changes its color every season. That's why I took this picture. Last year, I took the colorful flowers sprung out of the bushes at both sides. This time..it was just plain snow. 

Even..the benches I mean...brick bench where elderly citizens, students, and children usually play and sit around...was covered in 15 cm thick snow. 

The Imundong road where I live..was also white. It was god at first sight...since it looked just plain white and clean...but afterward....^^ 

On my way towards my home..some neighbor had done their job well done:  scooping out the snow from the road.

As of the snow in front of our house, we just let it intact for the night...until it melted away.

Skiing @ Komjian Resort (part 3)

Just compare these two pictures. The first one above was using the adjusted brightness.

The one below was using the normal one. 

Well, still..both pictures do not do justice to the beauty of snow on this slopes at Konjiam Resort. I guess only DSLR(?) camera would do just right. 

Anyhow..to sum up our tip to Konjiam Resort, I took some shots of the front facade of this resort. This is the ticket booth as well as the entrance to the resort. The second floor was a restaurant and other facilities for the visitors to enjoy after and before skiing.

Well, since it was still in Winter with its Holiday festive still hung on the air...a Xmas tree still stood right in front of the facade. At the back, the condominium where we could just stay to prolong our excitement... 

Waiting for the bus to take us back to Seoul. At about 6 pm....we were so happily tired.... 

just before we were getting on the bus, the Xmas tree was lit up. 

Bye bye Konjiam Resort.

Till we meet again.

Youido: Night & Day

I was walking on my way to IFC mall from KBS. My work's over and it's time to pamper myself with a little of pampering time: movie time. Well, I am a movie freak myself. 

On my way to CGV, I always admire the Youido park for being charming. (anyway...I could not find the best word to describe it). 

What I mean is that..this park or this huge square right in the middle of Youido island is perfectly located right in the center of business districts where lots of offices circling it.

Especially on this snow-covered winter time.

It was dusk already about 6 pm. Not a single person was visible but me. Well, of course there were some. But, I guess..I was the only one visible taking a walk crossing this snow-covered square. I just love the facade of those night-lit buildings over there.

---that's pretty much what Youido looks like at night---

Now...it's a broad daylight of the very same spot where I was the other night.

This time..I was walking towards the same mall _IFC mall-to have my lunch there.

Well, it looks so great during this bright-blue-sky day. 

But..boy---oh---boy...it was so chillingly cold.

I kept on walking with the thought of being warmed up inside the mall. After all, this week was the last week of my 5-day stand-in 'experience' at the vicinity. 

As I was approaching the mall, I could see the cars were passing by the wide lanes that separate the park and the office buildings across.

Who would not want to work in this neighborhood where the office, park, mall and other lifestyle center are just mingled into one.

The walking path as well as the bicycle lane are separated. But, since all of those were covered in snow..I could not make out which one's which. Anyhow...once again...all of this is situated right in the middle of a great office complexes at Youido, Seoul.

On my way back to my workplace, I was walking through another lane that crisscrossing the park. Just imagine the beautiful day you could expect from right here.

Isn't it lovely?

White..white snow...the glaring sunlight reflected on the glass tower of the office complex ....

and..right in front of them....stood a green tree....alone.

I can't believe that it is in a metropolitan like Seoul.

Well, it is possible..since Seoul has lots of parks for its citizen to enjoy.^^

At the Winter Dawn

Winter Dawn?

I think it's too late to call it ' Winter Dawn' coz the pictures themselves did not somewhat reflect the weeny breezy dawn that it may suggest.
Instead, the pictures show the bright color of Winter (minus the snow, of course).
So, what I mean by the 'dawn' of the winter is exactly what it is. Minus the snow, the winter sets in Korea in the midst of November.









The light pale blue sky mesmerized the windy day...
The barren leaves and trees were left stranded as if...
no one would ever care....

But....

the wisdom of winter tales are about to embrace
another story of what nature has in store
for them
to be...

We were lucky to be take a bit of any chance to capture the moment...
otherwise we might just pass it by...