SalsaMTB
07-17-2007, 04:33 AM
For the last two and a half years that I've been employed at my current job, I have taken the same commute. The one highlight during my commute is when I exit the freeway and wait for my turn to go through the light, there is a peaceful pond next to the road. It's a natural pond in a wetlands area, not the cookie cutter man-made ponds you see in neighborhoods or in front of office buildings. This was a mother nature made pond and I enjoyed it. It was my glimpse at the beauty of nature before I began my day in a cubicle. Every morning I gaze out of my vehicle and watch a swan swim around. There are some thin trees the block the view a little, but the swan normally swims around one area in particular and I am able to see it every morning. Year after year, the swan is there. As spring rolled around this year, the swan had babies, so I had the joy of watching the momma, pappa and baby swans swim around the pond. I knew each morning as I exited the freeway, my swans would be there peacefully swimming around.
Over the last month, construction trucks rolled into my glimpse of nature near the freeway. There was a new office building in the works. The trucks seemed to be working in an area just beyond the wetlands pond. The trucks really disrupted the pleasantness of my view, but I hoped that they would leave the little swans home undisturbed.
As I rolled off the freeway this morning, all my hopes of my swans' home remaining came crashing down. The pond was filled with dirt and there were construction trucks sitting on top of the place the swans once called their home. It broke my heart. My glimpse of peaceful nature during my morning commute is now gone.
What bothers me the most is that in my area, businesses are leaving left and right. There are empty office buildings all over the place, yet this company felt the need to build their office right in the middle of the tiny bit of wetlands that remained in suburban sprawl. My morning commute will never be the same.
Over the last month, construction trucks rolled into my glimpse of nature near the freeway. There was a new office building in the works. The trucks seemed to be working in an area just beyond the wetlands pond. The trucks really disrupted the pleasantness of my view, but I hoped that they would leave the little swans home undisturbed.
As I rolled off the freeway this morning, all my hopes of my swans' home remaining came crashing down. The pond was filled with dirt and there were construction trucks sitting on top of the place the swans once called their home. It broke my heart. My glimpse of peaceful nature during my morning commute is now gone.
What bothers me the most is that in my area, businesses are leaving left and right. There are empty office buildings all over the place, yet this company felt the need to build their office right in the middle of the tiny bit of wetlands that remained in suburban sprawl. My morning commute will never be the same.