The road to nowhere

You might recognize the Artsy Organized Neighbor's road through the woods. It connects the vineyard road out back to an overgrown path down into the ravine to our south called la rouère de l'aulne (Alder Stream). We use it when walking Tasha to get to another path through a patch of woods next to the vineyards. He (the neighbor) maintains the short road and even mows the grass in a wooded glade near his piles of firewood, roof tiles, and outmoded construction equipment.

The road ends at the log pile in the background. At my back, it forms a loop and a small spur that connects to the vineyard road.

Nobody lives on this land; there's no house there, no access to utilities. The AON himself lives down in town and uses this plot of land next to the vines to store stuff. This past winter he harvested a good number of hornbeam trees that grow in the woods and made some new log piles here and there. He knows we walk on his little road to get through the woods and doesn't mind. We've been doing it for at least fifteen years now.