Honestly, I don’t know if this is just a California thing, but it is good for a chuckle. In many areas of the state, but especially up here in the Sierras, the mobile phone companies try to camouflage or hide their cell towers.
If there’s a grove of pine trees near where they want the transmitter, they put up a cell tower camouflaged as a pine. If the area is full of oak, they install an ersatz oak tree. The problem is, they’re doing such a lousy job that it’s easy to spot the fake trees.
Like the one in the picture – Sticks out like a sore thumb, eh?
But that’s not even the worst – After all of last year’s forest fires, a large numbers of cell towers are the only remaining structures for miles. Tell me they don’t look stupid – A perfectly symmetrical, green tree surrounded by miles and miles of blackened land.
Frankly, I admire the effort of the cell companies to try to hide their unsightly towers – I just wish they would do a better job …
