A Patchworked Quilt

I flew to Kentucky last weekend and observed that, as Loki noted in this thread, the ground in the real world is indeed a patchworked quilt of varying colours and textures. I wonder why the community is denied this sense of immersive realism in the Second Life world.

I still think that Chip's idea of a drop down menu of textures we could set per parcel would be brilliant.