----- That field of wildflowers and weeds was turned into a muddy hole with some drainage pipes in it, bulldozed as part of another abandoned construction project, this one being some sort of warehouses or something. The whole site is just a muddy mess, the buildings only partially finished and the sheet metal roof of one of them already ripped open and peeled back in spots by the wind, all sorts of building supplies abandoned around the site.
Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate industrial aesthetics and I find a lot of industrial buildings have a certain beauty to them. That abandoned factory is something that I know objectively should just be torn down as it's been shuttered for nearly 40 years and it's crumbling, yet I'd still be sad if I couldn't walk down there and take pictures of it anymore.
I have environmentalist leanings but know that humans gotta do things too. I'd be far less bitter if the sites were actually serving some sort of purpose, it's the wastefulness that gets to me, especially when there are already so many vacant industrial sites around here that could be reused. Lately I think more and more it's just about cruelty, about simply ruining what few natural sites are left.
