Coilltewoods spruced out

I SMELT it before I saw it. The still, moist air of the forest carried the pleasant scent of resin, faint at first, then getting stronger. The path turned a corner and I saw a stack of freshly sawn logs.

The logs were massive, several metres long and some of them nearly a metre in diameter.

Close up, the smell was nearly over-powering. They were obviously from some species of conifer but I couldn’t work out which species because there were no needles or cones round the stack.