Friendly Doorman

 

Razed Plant Life Means More Open Space For Dogshit

 

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY --There would be no need for the sign if the shrubs and small trees weren't scraped away.  The area was packed in, no room for any crapping canines.   Before the scraping I would walk by and hear the birds within the greenery.  Apparently you can't be too close to nature when downtown. 

 

Proboscis Ready

 

War On Plant Life Continues

 

 © 2026 Luke T. Bush

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY  AUG. 25, 2026

I used to visit a large shrub by Macdonough Monument to do close-up and macro photography of insects.  Now it's been ripped up and removed.  Why?  More lawn for dogshit?

 

 

Stellar

 

Man, What Doggone Shades!

 

War On Plant Life?

 

(C) 2026 Luke T. Bush

PLATTSBURGH CITY, NY -  08/01/26

Gone.  Small trees and shrubbery.  Stubs left behind for someone to trip over when taking a short cut at night to the parking lot on the corner of Court Street and City Hall Place.

Birds used to hang out in the trees and shrubbery, places to hide, places for observation.  All gone.

Just down the street at Macdonough Monument park there was a spot where goldenrod grew, a food source for Monarch butterflies. Stripped away.

And at Champlain Monument milkweed grew in a small garden.  Ripped up and trashed for more lawn.  Monarch butterflies screwed again.

Decades ago there was a Plattsburgh City mayor who didn't like trees.  Chop, chop.  He was getting reading to cut down a large tree that still stands in front of the old federal building, now the Strand Center for the Arts.  He didn't like the way it blocked the view of Brinkerhoff and Margaret Streets.  Citizens came to the rescue and every year the tree is decorated with lights for Xmas.

Maybe the city should cut away all plants and pave everything with tarmac for a ubiquitous ugly parking lot.

 

Eye For Detail

 

Spotlighted

 

Sun-Spiked