Arbor

Many paved parking lots--such as those of malls or grocery stores--have "islands" of dirt, decorative rocks, weeds, wood chips, or malnourished trees. Today my wife and I visited a permanent farmer's market establishment in the north end of our town. Their small parking lot was paved, and it had "islands" too. But Those islands were populated by tall, old trees that had obviously lived there long before any people thought of selling produce near them.

Instead of clearing ground, paving the parking lot, and trying in vain to put back a little greenery, these folks just paved around at least some of what was already there. I would like to see more of that. If nothing else, at least parking lots would have more shaded spaces to fight over in the summertime.