On the way home from Saratoga Springs after visiting my doctors, I often stop to take pictures of the apple trees on Route 29 across from Saratoga Apples.
I liked seeing the trees and the Saratoga Battlefield Monument rising in the back. A few years ago, I began seeing another gruesome element popping up behind the apple trees and the monument. Every year, the big and ugly houses get close.
This is a metaphor for what we have come to call progress.
Every year, I see this “progress” encroaching on what is supposed to be a sacred American historical site, not to mention a beautiful apple orchard. This is the same story everywhere; my apple orchard makes it a little more poignant for me. There is no place special enough for the developers to leave alone or for towns and cities to reject anything new.
It just makes me sad. It’s just a matter of time, it seems, for natural beauty to survive.
(This morning, I’m off to the Mansion for my meditation class, which was delayed two weeks by the storms. I’m eager to get back. More later.)
never noticed the Saratoga Battlefield Monument before, haunting.
I feel this way too. People complain about wild life eating their flowers etc. When it is eating up their land and food. We’re going to have to learn to live with them in harmony. This a heart hurt for me bc I love land and nature so much. They give us so much to our soul and well being.
It actually kind of looks like a WW I battlefield.