Bliss by Harry Bliss for January 07, 2021

New subdivision on the way.

“…including you.”

That must be how Lewis & Clark felt when they saw similar views.

Give him a quick shove.

If you want that view go back to the city ;-)

♬ They took all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see ’em

Don’t it always seem to go

That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?

They paved paradise, put up a parking lot ♪♩

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

This scene cries out loud for a medium sized strip mall.

As long as there’s an Edward Jones, a nail salon and a dollar store…

Preserve wildlife habitat, shoot a land developer

He needs to be taken up to the top of Half Dome and dropped off of the edge.

I am reminded of when they closed Meigs Field, and Chicago was looking to build a new 3rd airport; someone proposed near Peotone (a location that, alas, is still under consideration 30 some years later), saying there’s plenty of empty land just sitting there.

To which sane people replied "We grow your food on that “empty” land!"

One summer I was a canoe guide for the Boy Scouts of America, leading them through Atikokan Provincial Park and I was amazed at how many of their leaders said the same thing. Usually at the start of the trip, a few by the end started to think differently

Yes…and that’s a very good thing.

“Where is the 7-11?!?!? Gads!”

Give these people a free ticket home…immediately.

AAARRRGGGHHHH!

No, no, no, no, no! Not under-devloped, but beautifully UN-developed and hopefully destined to stay that way. In one of the California counties, there is a movement to preserve open space as the farmland it currently is. This movement is called Save Our Agricultural Resources. SOAR.

Would be nicer if their McMansion wasn’t out of view behind them.

Go to Death Valley.

Bliss, MIchigan undoubtedly.