Yesterday morning after I mowed I decided, since I was already sweaty, I would go for a hike down the trail adjacent to our neighborhood. It was such a gorgeous day and it was made even better because about 98% of this trail is shaded by a canopy of trees.

A creek runs through this area. It’s where we let Ollie, our rescue possum, loose.

You don’t have to stay on the asphalt trail because there are some primitive trail shoot offs.

One thing I noticed yesterday was that there was so much trash on the trail. I can’t understand how people can just throw there trash into the woods or just leave it right on the trail. So this morning I decided to take a trash bag and go collect it.

Most of it I could get to easily, but there was a lot deeper in. This is what I was running into.

Very sharp thorny trees. There were also these thin vines that had so many thorns that would wrap around my ankles and legs. I crawled through as many as I could to get what I could see.

There is a small plastic cup in the pic above that I just couldn’t get because of the thorn vines. I didn’t want to get any more cut up.

I ended up collecting an entire bag before I hit the turnaround. So I guess, all in all, it was a good workout carrying it back to the trail head.

Some of the weird things I found were cut off legs from camo pants, a sock, a clothes hanger and a shirt. These were not all in the same place. I also found a half empty gallon of orange drink that was very old. I did not open it to dump it out.

There were also so many Beauty Berry plants. I just love them.

The next time I go back to pick up litter I’ll be sporting jeans, boots and a long sleeve shirt.

P.S.

I got my hair cut last Saturday so I wanted to document it to remember when I had it done. We only cut an inch off, but put more layers in it. I just let it dry naturally in this pic trying to embrace my waves.