Curb Cuts: Not Just for Wheelchairs.

One gloomy January day I went to Insight Coffee for a pick-me-up and was sitting there admiring the architecture of this tree, wondering how long it had been there when I noticed...

...this. The curb had obviously been constructed to accommodate the tree's roots. So I got a partial answer to my musing - the tree was older than the curb.

Just next to it was a newly planted tree. This curb cut was the obvious clue that a larger tree once lived there, too. Thus concludes my tiny neighborhood observation about civilization accommodating nature.