This photo isn't that great, but it shows several things about living in Kosovo.   Large piles of wood recently have been brought into the city and dumped into streets.  This is across from our apartment on Adem Jashari - one of the busiest streets in Prizren.   The photo was taken from our living room balcony.  The piles of wood are removed usually within a couple of hours by intensive labor of residents using wheelbarrows to transport the wood to their flats.  Obviously, the wood is the main source of heat for many residents throughout the winter (we have electrical heat in our flat).  In Pristina, a much bigger city, there is supposedly a bad smog problem due to wood smoke in the winter.  Frank and I are hoping that this won't be the case in Prizren since we're  right near the mountains and there tends to be a cooling breeze every evening.  This photo also shows the tangles of electricity.  Electricity is a real problem.  We were told that since our flat is in the city center and an affluent area, our electricity will be good; however over the past couple of weeks, the electricity has gone off almost every other day and sometimes twice on the same day.  It is usually off for 2-4 hours, but the annoying thing is that we don't have any water either when it goes off, so I could be in the shower and if the electricity goes off, I might be soaped up and not get to rinse off.  There are no water tanks here; the water comes from springs and wells, so electricity is needed to get the water to apartments.

Another poor photo.  This was taken on the same day as the one above but from our back bedroom balcony.  One of our neighbors behind our flat is chopping wood that has been delivered and transporting it into his home.  The rope you see in the foreground is our clothes hanging line.  Almost no one has dryers here.  The washing machines are in the bathroom.  Yesterday, Frank brought a sexy pair of black ladies' underwear in from the line.....they weren't mine but had fallen from one of the apartments above us.