Blue Heron

The blue heron that used to hunt the fields north of Mt. Peak was back today. I hadn't seen it in those fields for a couple of years, since the construction of the new homes in the area. It was standing in a field, stock still, so still you'd think it was a wooden decoy. The other day it was standing, statue-like, in a little marsh at the bottom of Mt. Peak.

What a shame those townhouses are taking over the farm fields. If you build over the farms, what will we eat?

A field isn't an empty space; a field can feed hundreds of people.

Will we ever see the day when warehouses and other buildings are removed to make way for fields? Progress in reverse? Real progress?

We need farms and fields in order to live. The developers of the new townhouse neighbourhood are trying to turn Enumclaw into Kent. We need fields and space.