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Jeannettecally Modified's avatar

They never did DEFINE what GREEN means.

I'm thinking it has something to do with the SOYLANT variety.

Anything goes!

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K Lolli's avatar

Here in Northern Minnesota I began noticing the dying trees and forests about a dozen years ago. Actually, when I think about it now more like 20+ years, when I began to see how the top halves of native paper birch along the North Shore of Lake Superior were rotting – turning black, splitting, and falling into heaps to the ground below. I have known these trees all my life as many of my relatives live along the scenic main corridor along the shore that’ll take travelers all the way to the Canadian border. The area was known for its glorious, lively birch. But the drive, one day pristine the next appearing as though it had suffered a nuclear attack, had become disturbing. Wellllll paper birch are not nnnnaaaative to Northern Minnesota, squawked ‘officials’ at the DNR.

Fast forward another 10-or-so-years: When our stately spruce and white, jack, and Norway pine – at one time strategically lined around homes, fields, even roads and highways to act as windbreaks – began to uproot over the slightest of hard winds and heavy rains I became alarmed. Naively, I thought I could arouse attention to the issue by creating a photo journal and posting it all to zukbook so I set about taking pictures. And, though not selfies, or plates of food, or nasty feet with painted red toenails pointing out toward an innocent beach, I went ahead and posted it all to fuk I mean zukbuk …

“They’re OLD TREES,” said someone.

Two, three, maybe four ‘likes’. Otherwise, no one cared.

(((Sigh)))

Enough said.

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