Down With Trees!

Pay attention.  This is one of the few times you shall hear me complain about my native Ninnekah!

You see these trees?

I HATE these trees!  Not trees in general; I love trees in general.  I am all about planting trees and initiatives like the one I can't remember specifics on right now - it was a company I read about recently that is planting a million trees a year for ten years or something?

That is great.  Awesome.  I am all for that kind of thing.  But THESE trees?  I HATE them!

This is the view from our front yard.  'Our front yard' being the Gee home in Ninnekah.  Growing up we would often count the cars on the trains that went by or even try to see what we could make out of the vehicles on Hwy 81.  But what do you see in this picture?  Trees.  Just trees.  Ugly trees.  I took this picture on July 29, 2012.  As I took this picture a train was going by.  Do you see a train?  No.  Just trees.

This is how it looked still during the winter of 2000/2001:

A few trees but mostly open space.  For crying out loud at least you could see if a train was going by!

Okay.  Rant over.

Now that the weather is starting to cool off hopefully I will soon have a lot more fodder for OST!  It has just been too hot recently and I've been too busy to go on any appropriate adventures.

So until next time...