Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 05, 2018

WHAT forest?

He’s stumped…

Sorry, Lio, Mark is reminding us it is an axiom that no subdivision name actually describe the reality of its location.

Aw, cr@p. Lio was going to play a game he’d done before, but it got changed without his being notified to ‘Me Tarzan, you missing.’

You name the subdivision after is removed; Rolling Hills, Deer Run, Red Barn, Tall Oaks……

I am not a tree fan, they fall down and do a lot of damage.

Who speaks for the trees?

I know this environmentalist priest who had something like this happen to him as a kid. An area with a pond, trees, and animals that he regarded as “his” and took care of (as kids will do) was destroyed. So now he’s an activist.

Bob Ross would be proud of that happy tree : )

The forest that isn’t.

I drove my niece through a part of town called “Fox Run.” She said, “I don’t see any foxes … they must have run them all off”.

“They paved Paradise to put up a parking lot…”

Since trees are oxygen factories (and by trees, I am speaking of broad-leafed, hardwood trees), and since they are being harvested or cleared world-wide at an alarming rate, we can only hope that evolution will adapt some species with the ability to breathe carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, numerous sulfur and nitrogen compounds – all of which have oxygen in them, I admit, just not in breathable forms.

It happened here about ten years ago; at the end of our rural road is a new subdivision named for the farm they bulldozed to build their ugly boxes.

Not just tract housing, but digestive tract housing.

Maybe send the Happy Tree Friends after the developer.

Oh, the irony…!

Curse those greedy developers for wanting to build HOMES for PEOPLE!

There was a comic on the internet with two evergreen trees next to each other. One is cut down, and the other says “Sorry dude.” The cut tree says “I’m cool, I’ll be used for lumber to build houses and furniture to serve people for years to come!” One month later he’s a discarded Christmas tree at the curb…

They razed paradise and put up a parking lot.

near our home is a neighborhood called Piney Grove. None of the new home lots have a pine tree planted. The land used to be a tree farm and the streets are named after coniferous trees but all the new plantings are hardwood.

And another called Autumn Hills has no hills. It was a tobacco farm and the streets are named after varieties of tobacco leaves.

I’m gonna guess the forest isn’t so happy anymore. Lio takes it all in, standing there with his coils of rope (what was he planning on doing, anyway?) and allowing us to suck in the irony….

“Run Forest, Run!”

Now… Why did he bring rope?

Next thing you know, Puma will make coats out of their own animal symbol.

“Sometimes I think the best sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”

So much for the forest part.