Slim Pickins

Another beautiful blanket of welcome moisture arrived last night bringing our 2-day total to 8-3/4 inches--at least that's what it measured on our deck railing.  To God be the glory for every intricate inch!  I delight in it.  How many snowflakes are there in 4-3/4 inches of accumulated snow on my railing?  Why is snow white?  Did you know there are 12-sided snowflakes?  It's such a mystery.  Einstein said it best:  "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science.  He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead:  his eyes are closed."

However, under 4 inches of snow, the location of any trash is also a mystery!  Undeterred, I set out at 8:00 this morning near a fairly likely location--the Safeway parking lot.  I was hard put to find much at first--just a few soggy receipts and some duct tape.  But the east side of the store yielded a bonanza of cigarette butts--a veritable tobacco crematorium.  So in the end, I found much more than my required 5 items of trash and 25 butts. 

May I add a little FYI before closing?  If some day you find yourself eating a banana in public, (not to be confused with the Banana Republic) resist the evidently overwhelming temptation to toss the banana peel out your car window, along a path or even in a Safeway parking lot.  If you think a bird, elk or deer will consider it a delicacy, think again.  A banana peel, no longer cheerfully yellow, is pathetically ugly sprawled in a parking lot, and nobody wants to eat it.  It takes 3-5 weeks to decompose.  This is partly because the peel contains some of the very chemicals used in making plastics.

Always,
Winter