Someone Had a Party

I was walking along the coast in Carlsbad when I stumbled upon a large area covered with trash.  Someone must have had a party because there were bags of chips, drink bottles, candy and a package of cigarettes along with several cigarettes littering the sand.  It was practically piled there in that one location. There is no way this trash blew in. Some jerks actually took the time to trash up the beach. ARGH!!

It was one of those moments where I was just so disgusted with humans that I wished for a plague to wipe all of humanity out.  No other being on this planet is so wasteful, so quick to create crap that ends up poisoning our land.  It can be so embarrassing sometimes to be associated with a race that is so completely ignorant and uncaring about our planet.

There was a plastic bag hanging on a fence nearby( not a big surprise). I grabbed that and shoved most of the trash into the bag.   There usually is not much trash on the beach in Carlsbad. It’s one reason I love the beach there so much.  It’s usually quite clean.

**Don’t be an Ass,  Pick up your trash!**

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I love birthdays. I love balloons and I love birthdays at the beach. What I don’t love is the amount of birthday balloons I see trashing up our beautiful coast.

I picked this up just North of Ponto beach.

If it won’t biodegrade soon, don’t take it to the beach. You know the wind is going to blow stuff like this away.  See that orange wrinkly thing? That is another balloon that is going to get stuck in the coral or in the stomach of a bird. Did you know that birds eat colorful plastic trash thinking it is food. It stays in their stomach and slowly kills them.

**PICK UP YOUR TRASH AND PICK UP TRASH YOU SEE ON THE BEACH**

Las Flores means trash?

No it means “The Flowers”, but as I walked up this road one morning, instead of flowers I saw trash!  I would have picked up more, but could barely carry these two grocery bags.

Pick up some trash today and throw it away,

It will not walk to the garbage can on its’ own,

It does not have legs or wings or a car,

Litter pollutes the landscape and leaves an ugly scar.

So pick up some trash today,

Don’t wait for someone else to throw it away!

Recycle it, Reuse it or don’t buy it at all,

Everything that is packaged will turn into litter,

You might slip on a piece of slimy trash and have a nasty fall.

Gutter Blooms

Gutter Blooms.  The glory of nature is that it will grow ANYWHERE!  These photos have a certain type of tragic beauty. Of course, who knows what nasty pollution is in that flowers DNA!   Who cares about a flower though?  It can’t feel pain. It doesn’t contribute anything.  Oh yeah?

Well flowers contribute pollen to bees, bees spread the pollen around. More plants grow. We have more oxygen.  We have more beauty.  So flowers are actually pretty cool huh?

I found this beauty growing in the gutter in Oceanside, CA.

This looked like a corsage, a really gross corsage, the kind the grouch would give to his partner.  Still I loved it. I found it in the gutter in Carlsbad, CA .

DID YOU PICK UP ANY TRASH TODAY?

Trash at Cardiff

Even the beaches in expensive towns cannot escape the ugliness of litter as it washes up on shore.

I mostly found pieces of plastic and bottle caps. You know those little pieces of trash get eaten by seagulls. They cannot digest that trash so it sits in their stomach and slowly kills them.

So next time you are walking on the beach at least pick up one piece of trash.

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