Once Upon a Tree on Farnsworth Road

On a nice breezy Michigan day, I drove by an old farm house I’ve known throughout my youth, only to find there were now new owners.   I didn’t see a new face.   Nor did I notice a different car.  I merely took a look at the landscape I once so cheerfully skipped through as a girl – gasped with amazement. 

The property, once a rich beautiful green canvas, painted with dozens of gorgeous towering picturesque trees, was now stripped to bare earth.   It looked eerie and unnatural.   Maple and Elms, Oak and Poplar trees… axed and sawed to the ground; now shaved below the soil to completely erase their existence.  All that remained was their memory.

 The sick irony is, the man who bought the property owns numerous gravel trains that will inevitably be parking there.   So I have asked myself why?  Why would someone that pollutes our air with diesel fuel exhaust from several semi’s want to cut down the very thing that removes that deadly carbon from our environment?

Money!

This man has a lucrative business and moving the business closer to a main highway intersection saves time and money.  What of those beautiful trees?  Well, it seems it will be a lot more convenient for him to pull those gravel trains in without having to worry about those ‘useless’ trees.  ?? 

The reality is, without a care for his own mortality, this man removed Mother Earth’s natural filtration system.  The carbon cycle no longer exists on this property.   The toxic carbon released from fossil fuel emissions will now rely on another point of filtration.  I suppose the neighboring trees about a quarter a mile away will lend a hand.  Unfortunately for now, the closest source of filtration will be the employees working the property along with the precious lungs of those families and children, living and playing around the farm as I once did. 

In the very end, though they do not even know it, they are just dying for a TREE!

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