Dichotomy..

     The contrast between the Thai penchant for personal cleanliness and care of the environment fascinates me.  Yards are often squalid while inside the house it is immaculate.  Rubbish dumped helter skelter, piles of liter in vacant lots with livestock; cattle, goats, pigs, roaming freely create a terrible mess. Pigs have been a big problem because they tip over the garbage bins...which also have tended to be too small and far between.

    Now there is a new initiative to address the garbage problem.  New bins are in place protect by a guard rail to fool the pigs.  (See picture below.) A hopeful step in the right direction.

   Many buildings have 'spirit house' on the property to house the spirits who were disturbed when the building was built so those spirits don't haunt the builder.  This is Animism, not Buddhism.  The spirit house across the street has a new fresh coat of paint since last year.  It is even equipped with an electric light,,,fluorescent of course, as are almost all Thai lights. 

Green liquids, yellow garbage, red hazardous.

The spirit house was blue.