Abandoned streets and subdivisions, peach trees and egrets
Just as it is no fun watching our parents decline, it is equally dismal to stand idly by while our small towns and countryside turn to crap increasingly fast in these tough times. Despite it all, there are patches of perfect bucolic existence amidst the mindless expansion and supposed growth. Perhaps the single biggest blight on the Oconee County, Georgia landscape is what one blueberry farmer/DUI teacher friend of mine calls PVC farms. They are developments built by developers with the best of intentions and greed of getting the eggs of the golden goose before that goose has been cooked. I am in no way suggesting that people do not have the right to do with their property exactly what they want to, but instead suggesting that once they have done or attempted to do, and failed, then the greater good of the neighborhood should at least be considered in a larger context of public safety and passive if not active recreational possibilities. My recent longer bike escapades down Old Bis...