Your Lyin’ Eyes
. . . are a thin disguise.
Seriously - I’ve lived in California all my life, worked in Florida for months at a time, been to Hawaii, the Bahamas and Tahiti, and I have never seen a palm tree like this one along US Hwy 60 near Surprise, Arizona. Who the hell are these green enviro-freaks that think this is any less an eyesore than a good cell tower? In fact, being a techno-person, I think cell towers are a functional piece of infrastructure with an aesthetic appeal and not in the least offensive in metro areas.
Clickable image credit The Better Half - but don’t get her started on the rampant cellular-conifer eyesore issue. She has yet another discourse on those.
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Linoge on 14 Jul 2010 at 1617 #
Honestly, the stealth-conifer-towers are not too bad in Washington… The companies tend to put them in pre-existing copses of trees, or at least near them, and while they are typically taller, the eye sometimes just skips right over them.
A lone, perfectly-straight palm tree that is way beyond what they are supposed to be able to grow to, however? Yeah, that is a bit over the top.
Minstrel on 14 Jul 2010 at 1636 #
I imagine that in the forests of the northwest would conceal a cell-conifer pretty well. However, there is one along US 60 near Wickenburg, AZ where the norm is Saguaro Cactus, Creosote and Palo Verde. It just doesn’t work. Check it out . . .
Linoge on 15 Jul 2010 at 1828 #
Oh. Wow. That is just dumb.