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Monday, July 29, 2013

Nightmare on main street


Dee Street, Invercargill. Why would anyone plant trees like these: gloomy, foreboding, funereal, along the median strip of any town. Could there be more depressing trees, trees with fewer *good features, trees that inspire nothing but trepidation?
I doubt it.
I love the ginkgoes that line the streets on Nelson and brighten the city-scape with their light green-turning-to-butter-yellow-in-the-autumn leaves. They do grow down here, though might not fare well in an exposed street like Dee, but surely we can do better than these monsters!
(In fact, I like the look of these, hence my photo, but only because they are so bizarre, in a Black Forest, gobliny sort of way)
*see the Cocobella girl in the background? I shuffled around so that her thong wasn't in the photo. This is a family show.

4 comments:

Armchair Critic said...

What sort of trees are they? They look like.....firewood.

robertguyton said...

Given the billboard, maybe Norwegian wood?

Armchair Critic said...

That's very good. Not being familiar with the billboard, could it perhaps be Norwegian would?

robertguyton said...

It's the hope of every coming-into-town Southland bloke.