Thursday - May 22, 2008

Riverside , California …. Have they finally destroyed those glorious orange groves on Victoria?

All in the name of progress of course and lets face it, profit really.

There’s an area in Riverside,Ca. that was slowly being ground under even as I was living there.

Orange groves.  At certain time of the year the smell of those orange blossoms was like heaven.  Covered a large area once.

Anyway, one street in particular was Victoria Ave. Or is it Blvd.?  Can’t recall.  I believe it was named for Queen Victoria and if I’m wrong I’m sure someone will tell me.  So, this street ran .... ? ... gee.  I don’t know how many miles from one end of Riverside to the other.  This being Calif. of course, the center divider
was planted with rose bushes between the palm trees.  Very scenic.

But little by little I had noticed the groves being destroyed.  I’m glad I left for Palm Desert before the the final bell tolled for Victoria and the groves there.

I guess there just wasn’t enuff profit anymore, especially as so much is imported these days.  And btw, when I speak of those groves I’m going back to about 1989 or ‘90, which is when I left Riverside for the Desert at Palm.  So heaven only knows what’s become of them in all this time.

I’m reminded of that area of Riverside because over here in the UK, there is much worry over what’s to become of what the Brits call, “The Green Belt.”

The green belt here was supposed to be inviolate, at least that’s my understanding.  There’s only so much paving over an island can stand, and now there are ppl suggesting , oh perhaps it’d be okay to destroy just a small amount of the belt.  For housing.  Especially in many areas, low income housing.  That’s double talk for council estates. Welfare housing. 

But even without that, once you start the process there isn’t gonna be any way to recover the beautiful parklike land that’s destroyed in the name of something that spelled another way says “profits.” Profits for ppl who couldn’t care less about this beautiful place.  And please do not make any mistake about one thing that rankles in both UK and USA.  Immigration.  Uncontrolled, unlimited immigration.

Altho the powers that be deny it, that’s the leading cause of all the demands for housing. Even if it means destroying forever parts of England that will never be recoverable.

Lyndon did a better rant on this then I have.  I just happen to remember those wonderful groves in Riverside and here I am reading about similar vandalism in the name of housing/profits here in UK.

Posted by Drew458     on 05/22/2008 at 10:18 AM   
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