Comments on: Walking the Sacred Battlefield Burial Ground https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/12/18/walking-the-sacred-battlefield-burial-grounds/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/12/18/walking-the-sacred-battlefield-burial-grounds/comment-page-1/#comment-2001019 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:32:59 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=84058#comment-2001019 In reply to Cliff Beittel.

Thanks for sharing, Cliff. And yes, there will be more vultures than ever on Cindy Spinner’s house.

with love, artie

]]> By: Cliff Beittel https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2022/12/18/walking-the-sacred-battlefield-burial-grounds/comment-page-1/#comment-2000372 Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:13:10 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=84058#comment-2000372 Joel Eade yesterday quoted lines from the refrain of Joni Mitchell’s song Big Yellow Taxi: “They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.” I thought then, at least they got a parking lot, whereas all ILE got was a more sterile landscape. But the verses around the refrain add more to the story, even trees:

They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see ’em

Again, no hotel, boutique, or parking lot, just a large, wasteful expenditure for fewer trees and less wildlife. Will it be better when the vultures perch on homes instead? I’ve seen that in a relative’s neighborhood in suburban Jacksonville.

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