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Slated For Death

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It's a tree, slated for death.

Some conglomeration has decided to build a shopping center over it. It's taken years to decide but it's finally happening soon.

Even though a huge chunk of land surrounding this field is being considered as Delaware's first National Park, this parcel is still being sold for development.

We've been friends since...well, a few decades. It's not my tree, not my land, but I'm reminded at times like this what a silly concept ownership is.

Liars. You liars. You don't own anything but your spirits, and those have become fouled. :(

Safety? Perhaps ownership provides a small respite, but no one is safe from money and progress until the wheels fall off of all the machines and the keys fall out of the little toy soldiers' backs, or somebody stops winding them up. It never ends, never stops. ALL parks are only reprieves.

I long for a day when we realize that living trees are our safety. We can always seek the short ones in a lightning storm, But we are too...let's see, cavemen were stupid right, because they could never imagine living in a skyscraper? So we must be something else than stupid--wait, no...if we can't imagine living happily within the forests and caves again, then we must be stupid, too. My how we've progressed. :roll:

Morose? You got it, pal. Serves me right for befriending trees when I live so near the edge of a city. The irony is...they tell me not to worry--their day will come again. :shrug: What, me worry? ;) I wish I had their serenity right now. [link]

I'm going to remember that this tree, already spared from the plow, is now falling that his neighbors in the nearby park can go on.
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648x864px 605.42 KB
Make
FUJIFILM
Model
FinePix S7000
Shutter Speed
1/1097 second
Aperture
F/8.0
Focal Length
8 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jan 3, 2004, 2:07:27 PM
Sensor Size
1mm
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PhilipHarvey's avatar
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot... :(