This photo, taken this past week about sums up the feeling of desolation that can come from winter. This scene is located just off of Highway 220 at Summerfield Road, near all of the highway construction where they are widening 220. The tree in the center has a pine tree behind it, making it look extra padded and a little menacing. It seemingly divides the two homes beside it. This is the landscape of rural Greensboro that is disappearing quickly. In the summer, when all is rich and verdant, this same scene looks quite charming. The large tree in the center will look as if it has spread its green, leafy wings from Lake Higgins to Oak Ridge. For now, it looks cold and desolate, like something out of the Wizard of Oz about to reach down and grab you.
Likely, not only Greensboro, but also the nation will be talking about the Great Winter of 2013-2014. Or, perhaps the not-so-great winter. At least it will make us really appreciate spring which is almost always beautiful in Greensboro.
Here's a tip for you, a very strange and unusual tree you'll want to document. It's a rather pathetic looking old white oak in the corner of the shopping center on 4th street-- the shopping center behind the Burger King and Suntrust Bank on Summit.
Get out of your car and examine the tree. Careful, there could be poison ivy about. You'll see what I'm talking about. Don't ask me when, who, how, ect... it's been that way for 40 years or more and no one I've talked to has ever been able to tell me. It is in-fact, a living concrete tree.
Posted by: Billy Jones | Saturday, March 08, 2014 at 08:29 AM
oh hang on, it will come! i love this photo, it does speak of winter dragging on...i'm glad you mentioned the pine, i thought it just had a ton of vines growing on it! have a great day :)
Posted by: Tbreese823 | Saturday, March 08, 2014 at 10:47 AM
Thanks Billy Jones! I'll check out that lead on the living concrete tree. Keep those tips coming. You are so connected to Greensboro's History.
Thanks for the words of encouragement Tanya.
Posted by: Greensboro Daily Photo | Saturday, March 08, 2014 at 12:45 PM
Spring may very well be arriving soon - but the last few weeks have created doubts in my mind!
Posted by: pfknc | Sunday, March 09, 2014 at 03:14 PM