Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:A few years ago, I went back to the parsonage where I lived from age 7 to 12. I, too, remember big trees — in my case, two or three in the lawn next to the church. Those trees are gone, and there're much smaller ones, some little more than large bushes. We had a neighbor across the crossroads, an elderly fellow my sister and I visited all the time. It's not surprising that he's no more, after more than forty-five years, but his farmhouse and outbuildings are completely gone too. There's nothing where he lived but somebody else's fields — probably corn. Damn, that was a depressing realization.
And the other thing is that there seem to be so many fewer trees in the town these days. The other side of the street from the TARDIS was part of my walk to elementary school every morning, and I remember massive oak trees looming over it and shading it most of the way between the traffic light to the north and the school to the south. They're all gone now and it looks so bare. And the same goes for most of the rest of the town. There were massive shade trees almost everywhere, but no more.
"You stupid people! You're parking on my memories!" — Snoopy goes "home" to the former Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.