Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Almost every home has at least one shed and a woodpile. The sheds are used for storage and as workshops. (I've yet to see a garage, and basements are minimal, if present at all.)

Woodpiles are normally very neatly arranged on stages or directly on the rock. This one appears to have started out that way but to have suffered some misadventure.

The shed here is owned by our neighbour across the road. Recently her grandsons visited for a couple of weeks. Most days the shed door was open, and from inside came the sounds of hammering and sawing. From time to time the boys, wearing hip waders, would emerge with their handmade boats to test them at the water's edge a few feet away.

The boys also had boats that had been made by someone with more skill. One day I noticed them on a rock, surrounded by waves of grass.