Last Farmhouse Standing

Over the past two decades Horse Pen Creek Road has transformed from a sleepy road to a busy hub of activity. The road is being widened and improved, as part of Greensboro's 2008 Transportation Bond referendum. Also, the Urban Loop is being routed underneath Horse Pen Creek. The projected completion date for the roadwork is 2019. The above photo features the last old-farmhouse on the road. The wooden farmhouse, peeking out from a dense field of bamboo, is tired and worn out; barely standing. It is located in across the road from Greensboro Montessori School.

You may recall from an earlier GDP post, Daystar will build a church on the property. Now that a lot of the the strip by the road has been cleared, the bamboo stands out. As seen on the photo above, when the sun sets on the bamboo thicket, it glows an almost translucent green. But, when the sun sets on the farmhouse, nothing will remain to remind us of the farmer, his black and white cows, his garden, and the dense bramble of blackberry canes surrounding the property. May Daystar be good stewards of the property. It is beautiful and so representative of the rural Greensboro of yesteryear.

Comments

[Lowell]

Sounds like quite a project for your city! We have some bamboo down here, too. It's interesting stuff and a few folks use it as a fence barrier. Re your question on Ocala: Yes, I was on a bike; a traditional mountain bike. :)

[Ronald L Vaughn]

There is a grove of bamboo along Murchison Road in Fayetteville NC, one grove is near some new construction & I hope maintaining this grove of bamboo has been incorporated in the construction plans, even if they have to dig it up & relocate, but I doubt it!

[Jane Tucker Mitchell]

I might have entitled this "Greensboro of Yesteryear". It looks as if that will soon be the case all around us.

[William Kendall]

Yes, the bamboo seems to really shimmer.