This beautiful field of sunflowers is now a high school with a huge parking lot, three baseball fields, a half dozen tennis courts, and a massive football stadium. And, directly behind me is over a mile of houses (Starting in the low $400s the signs say). Along with the houses comes buried sewer lines, water lines, gas lines, electrical lines, paved streets, concrete sidewalks, all required infrastructure needing years of constant maintenance against nature’s attempt to reclaim it’s world. And there’s a quick stop place for our gas guzzling cars and to purchase unhealthy foods. For such a large area it would be almost impossible to actually touch the earth as most of it is covered with concrete and asphalt.. The farmer that previously owned this field would alternate the sunflowers with onions yearly. Personally, I preferred the sunflowers over the onions but I will take the onions over what is now there. Saturday morning on my way to meet Eric for coffee I realized how much I miss those sunflowers, even the onions.
4 Comments
Earl
Yes, even the onions. It seems that almost every time Bonnie and I go out, some new field or once-wooded acreage is being cleared for new buildings. The need for housing in this area still exceeds the amount available. It’s a reality, but I hate to see it, and I don’t know how the road infrastructure will handle it all.
Monte Stevens
I’m not sure any of it is sustainable. One of my classmates is a realtor and told us the other day they are just not making small starter homes because there is no money in it. Sadly it’s decisions based on the greatest profit.
Faye White
Disheartening, the ‘progress’. Sigh. Rembering the open fields.
Monte Stevens
Thanks Faye. I have a lot of images that can no longer be duplicated because the open field or the old barn is gone. By the way, can you smell the onions?