IF A tree makes a phone call in the forest and no one answers, did it happen? Our updated version of the famous philosophical question from Bishop George Berkeley is made necessary by the proliferation of fake trees trying, without ever quite succeeding, to pretend they are not cellphone masts.
Now there is, inevitably, a website devoted to these strange unlife-forms. displays photos of the pretend pines that populate its author’s native Scottsdale, Arizona. Of course, one of these would stand out like a sore thumb in an English village like, say, Little Giggleswick in Norfolk. But if…
