Future schlock

Remember this?
Remember this beautiful hillside, home to bobcats and coyotes, roadrunners and foxes and California quail? I was naive when I wrote it would be paved over within the year.

Just a few weeks later...
Just weeks later, a crew cut down all the trees and vegetation, put up a fence and widened the road.

Future shock
And posted a picture of the house to come.

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