Comments on Burtons Shore - Aug 13, 2004

Once again - pictures in the rain. Folks are soon going to learn that all they have to do to get rain is to send me into the field.

It's hard to walk a fine line. Burtons Shore is one of my favorite places on all the Shore. I want people to see it. I want people to appreciate it. I want people to leave it alone. Yet, it seems somehow that the worst kind of people see someplace they like and there goes all that makes that place special and worthwhile. And there are people with lots of money that seem to think (a lot of the time) that their money can buy anything and that a place is somehow better for their being there. Well, not so in places like Burtons Shore and the other few places like this that are left.

The most good will be done in those places if people just use their money to go somewhere else. Or one day they will turn and look and whatever beauty their money bought for them will be spoiled - trampled down and hollowed out - and gone. Will it even dawn on them that they did it - all by themselves?

How incredibly sad is that!