Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Good wood

When I think of Swiss orderliness and tidiness, one of the images that always stays with me is the stacks of firewood you see everywhere you go (but especially up in the Alps). I defy you to find nicer stacks of wood anywhere--I'm convinced it's a school graduation requirement here to be able to build a pile of wood that is perfectly level on all sides and where nothing larger than a pencil can fit between any two pieces of wood. We were taking a walk this weekend and stumbled across this example (which would probably be considered a bit sloppy by exacting Swiss standards):