Heartbreaking

The difficult year has multiple dimensions, including the loss of many trees. 17 tall oak trees have been destroyed near my home in under 3 weeks time. While this event was going on, I drove to work one morning and noticed that some buildings had been torn down in the city. One was the old surf shop. But the glorious, perfectly proportioned old tree there still stood, it’s beauty standing out against the early morning sky. This gave me some peace, until the very next morning, when the beautiful tree was nothing but a heap of freshly cut wood. Why? It was not in the center of the site, and could have been protected. This goes on every single day around here so that contractors can move and build faster, more efficiently. My hope is that we here in the east can soon learn to appreciate a better type of development that minimizes destruction of trees and natural environments.