Below are some Ilsan redwoods (yellow-orange color, right-of-center) – in fact, they are planted instantiations of the Chinese "dawn redwood" (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), which shed their needles for the winter. Yet they have that redwood smell of the California coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) of my childhood, and that familiar texture of bark and shape of needles. It's just exotic enough to remind me of what a long way I am from home, yet familiar enough to remind me of home. They are abundant in Korean suburbs.
[daily log: walking, 3km]