I took this picture last November, so it has become terrible color now.

These are called "Kankoro mochi". They are rice cakes with mashed sweet potatoes. The green one is a mugwort flavored. The center is plain sweet potato flavored. The purple is purple sweet potato flavored. It was my first time to eat them. They are a little too sweet.

Although, we hadn't have much snow this year, it snowed a lot on new year's day. So, we had to shovel the snow.