Winter Food

After the freezing Alaskan front left, we now have foggy days.  The fog blankets all over the town with the cold and damp air.

The other morning, one American Robin landed on my backyard.  She wanted to peck on an old soggy apple.

"It's soggy, but in winter any fruit can taste very good."

This afternoon I noticed the robin back again and this time it found another food behind the dead zinnias stems.

"Yum, yum, yum.  I didn't know these berries were hidden here.  

I have to munch before another one of us finds to finish these."

In the U.S. these purple berries are called "Beauty Berries" and in Japan called "Murasaki(meaning purple) shikibu," name of the author who wrote Genji Tales in the ancient 10th century Japan.  What an interesting name for it!