Enjoying nature while we can: Trees forming a natural canopy in Florida
@PatZAnthony (14752)
Charlotte, North Carolina
August 28, 2020 2:05pm CST
There are places all over the world that are beautiful to visit. Some natural sites you will appreciate enough that they might never escape your memory.
As we've traveled over the years, we have noticed the widening of roads often destroy natural sites such as the one in this photo. We are experiencing this in North Carolina as they continue to put in bridges and by-passes that will lead traffic away from towns.
As the beauty of nature is removed to add more to our concrete jungle, some of us really do wonder why this is called progress.
The photo used here is mine and was used with another post I made some years back.
Are new roads and bridges being added where you live?
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
28 Aug 20
we have lots of those canopies near us in Florida, I love driving under them. England too has a wonderful canopy like that in the Cotswolds.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
1 Dec 20
The one in the photo is not terribly far from where you stay when in Florida!
Many were removed over the years to widen roads.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
3 Dec 20
@PatZAnthony We are always adventuring traveling the back roads and enjoying the sights.
@MarshaMusselman (38663)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Dec 20
Some roads are widening but there are no trees nearby but many city roads especially the more shallow ones do have canopies from trees overhead something I always enjoyed seeing when driving around.
Course now that the leaves have fallen there are no more canopies until tree blooming time next spring.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
1 Dec 20
We just took some photos of canopies in South Carolina last month. They do make an area more interesting.
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@much2say (53944)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Aug 20
When I was a kid, the street leading to my parents' house looked like this with the canopy trees. With water in the gutters, it look like a lush jungle. But now driving through that same street, there is no more overhang of branches . . . the trees are all dry and topped off to barely anything - rather sad. Any roads (no bridges) here have been around for ages and now it's about forever repair work now.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
28 Aug 20
I love the photo! We have some places like that here and I just love them. God's beauty never ceases to amaze me!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
1 Dec 20
Yes, so many places want wider roads, so the trees have to go.
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