Re: Re: CULT: avoiding roots (was Swingtown)

Neil

What a clear description on "development and progress".

Scary isn't it.

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia  Zone 8/9

colleen@impressiveirises.com.au
www.impressiveirises.com.au



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil A Mogensen" <neilm@charter.net>
To: "Iris-talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 2:45 AM
Subject: [iris] Re: CULT: avoiding roots (was Swingtown)


> Oh Linda!  If you only knew what's happening to our lovely valley
> neighborhood.  That "open field" is part of Jack Nicholaus'"The Cliffs at
> Walnut Cove," an 18-hole golf course with the surrounding hills cut into
lots
> selling for $250,000 and up.  On Ball "Mountain" just across the road from
us
> the highest lots are priced at a full million.  We hear rumors there will
be
> hotels, restaurants and condos in addition to the mountain lots.  Our
poor,
> crooked Avery Creek Road is simply crumbling from the heavy construction
and
> ten-wheeler truck traffic.
>
> The other morning the angle of the sun, the cold, clear air and the
leafless
> trees combined to reveal progress on another development due west of us
called
> "Avery Park"--the entrance to which has a locked gate.  What had been
wild,
> untamed woods not long ago suddenly is dotted with brand new houses all
over
> the slopes.
>
> The owners of the properties across from us and west of us have had offers
on
> their lands from the golf course developers.  My step-son who owns the
> property we live on said he was going to find a bunch of old refrigerators
and
> car bodies to set out on the front lawn.  He was joking, of course, but
the
> day will come when he, too, will be hearing from "The Cliffs,"  car bodies
or
> not. He has no intention of selling, though.
>
> We are feeling increasingly uncomfortable here--million dollar homes are
not
> exactly our style.
>
> I'm afraid that "open field" is not exactly available even though there
isn't
> a Crepe Myrtle (or an iris) in sight.
>
> Neil Mogensen  z 7 in the once wild mountains of western NC
>
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