This seems to be a bag of grass seed or bird seed. Since there are lots of new homes in the area, I assume that it’s grass seed. Animals have apparently ripped the plastic bag open for feeding. I found it near the dead raccoon on the mattress. Maybe he ate too much of the plastic bag and died.

I’ve shown pictures of trash and garbage at construction sites many times on this blog. I found this trash interesting at the abandoned (?) Travis Trace site. The water pipes were filled with boxes, clothing and a cooler.

I’m continuing my pick up of plastic bottles when I walk or run. Tonight, I picked up three off the streets of the Riverwalk and Lexington Point subdivisions. I’ll total the number of bottles I pick up at the end of the summer. Now this isn’t an organized clean up. I just do a walk and pick up as many plastic bottles as I can carry. And these aren’t my bottles.

Please, let’s keep plastic out of the waterways.

Two men are sailing to Hawaii on a boat made of junk through a pile of junk in this story. Their blog is at junkraft.com.

Plastic flower pots like these are recyclable. There is no reason that they should have been dumped illegally as these were.

Metro Nashville recycling centers will take clean plastic labeled recyclable with 1-7, no black plastic. Whoever dumped these pots could have reused the soil in the pots, rinsed them out and taken them to the Bellevue recycling center, off I-40 East heading toward Nashville.

While lunching today at my favorite Mexican restaurant, Baja Burrito, I noticed something unusual. I was facing Sam and Zoe’s Cafe, when I looked up to the left. I saw this large plastic bag of garbage hanging from a limb around twenty feet in the air. Why?

My mother used to hang plastic bags full of meat bones from the trees when we would visit with our dog. He once dug a turkey carcass out of her compost pile. Apparently, she hated putting meaty trash in the garbage can until just before pick up time. So, she stored her meat-related trash in weird places like freezers and compost piles until trash day. And that is the My Family Is Weirder Than Your Family story of the day.

Why the image of the wild rabbit for a day normally illustrated with red, white and blue banners and flags? Because that’s what I’m going to do today to celebrate my life in the United States. We’re going to enjoy the natural beauty with a hike along Radnor Lake or one of the metro greenways. Hopefully we’ll see deer, turtles, snakes and a variety of birds.

Rabbits are symbols of rebirth and resurrection. We have the opportunity to change our direction of excessive overconsumption in the US. Let’s learn to reduce, reuse and recycle. This bunny and its offspring deserve a safe environment.

Enjoy the fourth in a traditional toast with fireworks and cookouts if you wish. Please remember the environment and clean up after yourselves.

This rabbit was photographed along the Riverwalk Greenway in Bellevue.

We have some undeveloped land next to our subdivision that people use as an illegal dump site. We seem to get a lot of mattresses. Unfortunately, a raccoon met his death on the mattress.

Was the raccoon sick and died on the mattress? Was he attacked defending his mattress? Did he know that a mattress is for sleeping?

This appears to be a medical EOB for Marshall Winkler that I found on the side of the road recently. M-m-m, if it had belonged to Mary Winkler maybe I could have sold it on eBay. She could be on her way to being a cult figure.

I often complain on this blog about how construction sites seem to collect trash. Over the past year, I’ve photographed lots of garbage on construction sites. This abandoned (or slow to be developed) site for Travis Trace has a complete set of condiments, along with Mylanta and Yoplait Yogurt, which are good for an upset stomach. From sight, I could see that the Kraft’s Tuscan House Italian Dressing was unopened.

Why didn’t the freegans find this site?