It's spring! For sure... finally!!! I'm holding onto that, even if we do get some fresh snow. For now though, it sounds like spring, it smells like spring and it is spring! Complete with all the grime and grit that comes with it. Driving along the roads here, there are thick accumulations of winter sand along with bits and pieces of garbage. Everything that was hidden by the snow, is now being revealed. Lost hubcabs, wrappers of every description, bits and pieces of bumpers from fender-benders. The one thing that seems to be missing is the plastic bag.
In BC, there used to be tonnnes of plastic bags caught on chainlink fences, wrapped around bushes and trees. Anywhere you looked, you'd see an accumulation of plastic bags. Which is kind of disconcerting. But here... I haven't seen any! And I drive past several prime potential plastic bag hang outs... Places where the wind blows and where there are fences to catch the bags... but nothing. Either they are much better at cleaning up trash here... or we're slowing letting go of the plastic bags?? Wouldn't that be cool... if we could finally be moving beyond plastic bags into a different realm.
The street cleaners are going to be out in full force in the coming weeks, and soon all the grit and grime and bits of garbage will be swept up... Beyond that... this is a pretty garbage free place... Which makes me wonder again... are people here different than elsewhere? Are there more trash cans around? Or are we just using less disposables...
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