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Landscape

The Landscape

It's sunrise and only light enough to see the highway and creek bridge.

It brighter now and we're looking straight on across the bridge.

Some of ravine and the bridge appear faintly in the gloom.

The bridge, unused for years, abuts the ravine in tangled clumps of weeds and vines.

A view from the bridge of the footbridge in the distance, beyond which are the untouched woods and undergrowth, soon to be leveled.

Early in the clearing stage, some leaning trees have been halfway gouged from the earth.

Trees and larger undergrowth have been cut away leaving the small wooden wellhouse standing near what was once the little street called Goforth Flat.

Looking across the bluff on the southeast side of the river at the huge old Cliffside Mill with its high smokestack, and further on the ancient, long white multistory warehouse and higher on the hill the old cotton gin.

The camera pan to the right to include in the shot the old bridge (still in use) and the cleared dirt abutment and area below along the river.

And we pan further right to reveal the entire mile-long work site, including the creek bridge and the cleared soon-to-be a roadway beyond.

The camera moves still more to the right to capture the area south of the creek bridge, where the little creek empties into the green water of the river.

We're on the bluff overlooking the cleared banks of the creek and the footbridge.

Finally we see the creek bed between its steep banks. On one a bulldozer is pushing dirt uphill, and closer in a large pile of tree trunks and limbs await burning or burial.

We're low in the mire of the creek where dozers have made tracks as they pushed dirt around.

This shows the width of the cleared area. The creek bridge is in the far background. It's all raw, carved up earth. Way up on the bare steep hill once called Highland, an earth mover is doing its job.

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