Tree Museums

On the front page of Thursday's Austin American-Stateman, there was a large photo of students going on a "nature outing." The funny thing was, is that according to the caption, this took place at a ranch. Excuse me for being cyncial, but since when did a nature outing involve going to a large number of private fenced off acres that contained domesticated animals? The cows are not wild. Your are merely playing with some else's property. It seems for a tru nature outing, there should not be any tire tracks on the trail you're walking on.

Maybe we are just a few steps away from tree museums. Pay a person a dollar to take a walk through their private garden so that you can look at all the trees that the city razed to the ground. (Experts are predicting that by 2035 there will be no green space in Houston).