MORE UNEASY VISTAS The Sequel

I thought I'd stick another "Noticing" post in between two "Uneasy Vistas" posts, otherwise, things may feel a little bleak.

- Blue tarps and their fibers EVERYWHERE. My friend and editor, Summer, brought this up and I immediately felt the mutual cringe like a punch in the gut. They don’t even last a year before they start to break apart. Their fibers are embedded in EVERYTHING! Wood piles, empty lots, car frames, lawnmowers, fences, grass, trees, and even bird nests. Their fibers are like Styrofoam packing peanuts (another Uneasy Vista) – they don’t break down and you can never clean them all up. They stick to whatever they touch, then they begin to rot into threads. Plastic is petroleum, and petroleum’s fingers are like needles just boring into everything.

- A tiny heart and liver on the floor that I almost step on.

- Maggots under the garbage can lid. Not that I think they don’t have every right to be there ;)

- A pile of mattresses in someone’s yard stacked in a fire pit ring right next to the river. This one fills me with total despair.

- Abandoned strollers. 

- Loud filthy plastic toys in “free” piles. Too close.

- Used plastic disposable diapers everywhere. Against the green of trees. Any “need” that was created.

- ”Lost” underwear in a parking lot or behind a building. Though, one lone mateless shoe in a random place does sometimes make me laugh? Ok, every time :)