Tree Management

From my balcony I can see the next stage of a housing development under construction. For a week there have been humans in high-visibility vests driving and digging on the emptied lot. I was happy to see that, no matter how much dust they disrupted, they had been leaving the old trees rooted and intact.

On my way to the train today I was pleased to witness the arrival of a fleet of trucks emblazoned with "AUSTRAL Tree Management" on the side. I smiled, happy to think that these trucks had come to manage the relocation of all the trees to somewhere new where they could continue to refresh the planet's oxygen and be green and live.

Then the trucks finished turning in and I was sad.