Cotton Fields

I've decided I like cotton fields. Not so much for allergy inducing chemicals, or the cotton snow they leave on the side of the road every fall, but more as a symbol of less traffic.

Every time a cotton field disappears around here we get a new subdivision, new business, or new mall and with each of these comes more and more traffic. I must admit, I like progress, I work in the technology industry, I'm thrilled we are getting a P.F. Changs, but I'm thrilled at how the roads and infrastructure lg behind the gridlock and demand of the traffic.

If the city planners were playing Sim City, they'd lose the game. No, wait, they would do what they do now, and raise taxes. In the game the people revolt, in real life, I think we just pay them, move on, and be thankful things are not worse.

The reason for the train of thoughts is all the cotton fields I drive by in the mornings. It's becoming fewer and fewer of them and that's sad. I have no room to talk, we built our house year before last in the middle of what used to be a cotton field.

I guess progress happens.