Spring here officially began earlier this week. Though the landscape still looks a bit dreary because of the current dry conditions--only recorded 0.15 of an inch of rain this month despite encouraging weather predictions accompanying each cold front--there are some hints of color here and there.
Some of it is showier than others.
Ancient Islands Group of Florida Sierra wanted to organize a Great American Cleanup event Saturday /
I suggested we take a crack at the area around Lake Blue Scrub. I knew there was some trash, but wasn't prepared for the amount that was present.
We found tires, a mattress and box spring, an aquarium and bags and bags of beer bottles and similar debris.
There was also several hundred pounds of concrete debris that we left behind.
Later in the day I returned to see if the pile had been removed. I ran into one of the neighbors at the other end of Holton Road and told me there had been dumping the night before of several bags of trash. One landed inside the fence and I retrieved it.
