campus meadows

This morning I took a slow (emphasis on slow) jog through the forest that lies directly behind our apartment. To get there you just have to go up a short hill to the ETH Hoenggeberg campus and then the forest and its endless crisscrossing 'Wanderweg' paths open up before you. As I ran up the hill to the forest I noticed that they were cutting the grass around campus. It smelled so sweet and I realized that this wasn't just grass (much less lush green grass fed by chemicals and a societal aversion to weeds and kept trim by gasoline-fed riding mowers), but rather a cornucopia of clover and flowers with thick long stocks of grass that was being cut and carefully laid out to dry. I thought, wow, if I were a cow, I would definitely want to be feasting on this during the winter.