landmarks gone

i love it that parts of atlanner are building up like a real city, but i hate the loss of trees --- some are personal favorites, like the little 30-year-old grove of virginia pine that wrapped the corner of eighth and cypress --- always the smell of piney woods when dog and i walked that way --- still a little of the piney-woods smell today, but nothing but holes where the pines were

far worse is the loss of the landmark oaks dating back to the nineteenth century --- they left the giant one on eleventh street when they did the initial site work and even fenced it off, but then a couple of weeks ago, they cut the limbs off one side ---- now it's gone entirely --- it was a champion and on a site like that could have been saved were it not for the eternal greed of real-estate developers --- same thing happened to the gorgeous white oak on the east side of juniper between fifth and sixth: wasted for greed