| I know how grateful you all are when I share the insight I receive after thinking about things a great deal. Here's what I came up with... The city is currently making secret plans to create a new attraction: "The Stumps of Mystery" These stumps truly are mysterious, having appeared overnight, leaving me to wonder... "If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it, where does the shade go?" As I have mentioned many times before, I am a 70's child. Back then, we were loving the earth. On Saturday mornings, the cartoon bird, Carly Cardinal, would sing from my television screen, "To some it's just a tree, but it's a home to me." This is why the move to clearcut the Red Bluff parks has been so upsetting to me...because I know that somewhere, Carly Cardinal looks down on these stumps, crying that we have destroyed the places "where squirrels spend their time..." I get extremely sentimental about these things... Nah, not really. I believe trees are dangerous. They can fall on children. We need to encourage our kids to play in safer areas such as the skate park. Might I suggest that Dog Island Park has been a bit too shady lately? Trees everywhere! How annoying! What people want is to visit a park without the bothersome sight of trees, bird nests, and squirrels. I like to visit a park and feel like I'm in Death Valley...that's what I like. I can't get the full effect of the sun with all the sheltering shade. I also think we would have more lizards in Red Bluff if we didn't have all the trees...and I think we can all agree that more lizards would be the best thing that could happen to our town. One can only hope there are plans to do something about the rest of the trees in our town... For myself, I have made this decision: I will not be planting any more trees. At full maturity, trees are hazardous to children. A tree is like a ticking time bomb. I don't want to be responsible for planting a tree that falls on someone. Besides, if I plant a tree, it will just need to be cut down in 40 years. Why bother? I suggest you do what I did...take your children down to look at either of our Stump Parks and tell them that this is just another example of how much they are loved and how much we want to protect them... and what the city will do to avoid being sued. Anyway, for those of you who are feeling sad, here's a video for you... |
"Why it's practically a crime when someone damages a tree!" Carly Cardinal's friends |
| Celebrating the Red Bluff Stump Parks... |
| Some people were upset by the removal of a tree from Forward Park after it was determined that the tree was a hazard and might fall on the play equipment. Call me simple...I would have moved the play equipment. But then, I was not consulted on the decision. Last year, many of the trees were removed from the Red Bluff River Park. Stumps are becoming a common sight in Red Bluff. |
