October 10, 2007
Old Field
Originally uploaded by SarahLena.
I took this shot on a walk by my parents’ house in August. I grew up around these cotton fields, which always made me feel like we got a part of the south that most “city dwellers” may not enjoy. We had the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge behind us and nothing but cotton fields around us. It was so incredibly beautiful.
The last year has brought devastation to the area. The drought has caused most of the cotton crop to fail, and the heavily wooded area is now being razed for future home construction. It’s a sad, sad thing.
I’m sure this is what all old people feel like when they see their neighborhoods change over time, but my dad said it best, “I just feel like the Lorax.”
2:23 pm
I know that field! I can barely stand to go by there anymore. It makes me so sad to see the trees taken down for stupid carbon copy, cookie cutter, siding houses. It’s just developers looking for a quick buck.
It is a sad thing. What’s even more depressing is that half of those subdivisions already sit empty, and they’re still tearing down and building in anticipation of some BRAC influx.
Believe you me, there ain’t gonna be one.
Too sad. I feel the same way when I am driving to the gorgeous, heavily wooded Oregon coast and pass a nasty-a$$ clear-cut. It just looks like post nuclear war…
Honestly, that’s why we choose to rent over in a historic neighborhood rather than buy in a newly constructed subdivision.. we really like TREES.