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Living on the edge of a changing prairie, I connect to this piece.
I curse the pace of this seemingly unneeded expansion. So I tend to photograph them before they are gone…
Yes. This property used to have 1 house on it. A developer bought it and will now place 6 houses on 50’ or less sized lots. It is a fragile wetland that submerges often. I can’t even understand how this is allowed other than pure greed.
My house backs up to a 120 acre alfalfa field. After ten years here, they are now beginning to build 240 houses in an extension of the subdivision. On the prairie to the north, my arboreal brothers are being cut down to make room for…something. Progress.. Development. Greed.
Rats. I am so sorry. I too am about to lose my 30 year view. We can run but I doubt we can hide from “progress”. Big Yellow Taxi was written in 1970 and it seems we have learned nothing.
We are relentless creatures who like to think themselves “rational”. Rather, we are “rationalizing” creatures, meaning we act, then convince ourselves some rational choice or process motivated the action.
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February 10, 2019 at 12:40 pm
Reblogged this on On My Feet and commented:
Living on the edge of a changing prairie, I connect to this piece.
I curse the pace of this seemingly unneeded expansion. So I tend to photograph them before they are gone…
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February 10, 2019 at 12:59 pm
Yes. This property used to have 1 house on it. A developer bought it and will now place 6 houses on 50’ or less sized lots. It is a fragile wetland that submerges often. I can’t even understand how this is allowed other than pure greed.
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February 10, 2019 at 1:05 pm
My house backs up to a 120 acre alfalfa field. After ten years here, they are now beginning to build 240 houses in an extension of the subdivision. On the prairie to the north, my arboreal brothers are being cut down to make room for…something. Progress.. Development. Greed.
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February 10, 2019 at 1:14 pm
Rats. I am so sorry. I too am about to lose my 30 year view. We can run but I doubt we can hide from “progress”. Big Yellow Taxi was written in 1970 and it seems we have learned nothing.
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February 10, 2019 at 1:44 pm
Precisely so.
All we can do it observe, reflect, report back. And keep listening to trees.
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February 11, 2019 at 1:19 am
We are relentless creatures who like to think themselves “rational”. Rather, we are “rationalizing” creatures, meaning we act, then convince ourselves some rational choice or process motivated the action.
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February 11, 2019 at 1:20 am
Oh, btw, very cool image… the grunge filter really sets a mood.
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February 11, 2019 at 6:47 am
Thank you Patrick. I didn’t really need it, the mood was already bleak buuut I wanted to have some artistic license fun.
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February 11, 2019 at 6:52 am
Ooooh, very true. Like, I need to have that beer. I deserve it. It’s been a long week.
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February 11, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Yah. Just like that. 😉
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February 11, 2019 at 1:36 pm
It certainly upped the ante. =)
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