We were expecting a huge Foxfield mess...

...but it wasn't too bad. We didn't have enough time either to walk the complete stretch, so this is only the result from the start of Old Ballard at Owensville Rd to the bridge.

 

New findings

We went out April 10 but I forgot to post it. Here are our collected results.

And we went out yesterday to pick up only new stuff. nature is already exploding, so there's no chance to find older trash. But the amount of new trash is pretty amazing, it has been only two weeks ago. The wet white bag with the box was down in the creek. Luckily we had our grabbers, so we could easily retrieve it.

 

8 more bags and other "goodies"

We still found a lot of old trash and of course a good amount of mandatory new beer cans and bottles. We also discovered an old gas can and a tire deep down on a hill at the side of the road.

 

 

 

What can we say?

Since weeks I think "Now we've got it, all the old stuff is picked up" but when we start our walk we discover still more old trash along the road, like there is no end to it.

 This one we fished out of the creek:

Beer bottle collection. Definitely the favorite beverage on Old Ballard Road:

Very old trash here:

And more

Then we discovered a nest of beer cans up in the woods:

And here a nice little collection of our findings:

Last bag before the rain started:

We started our walk around 9:30 AM and got home at probably 12:30 PM. Around 3:30 my husband went to pick up the bags with his car and discovered a fresh Chipotle bag on the side of the road. It even had a receipt in it.The litterbug of the day is the owner of the Visa card with the last four digits 4722. Congratulations!

And by the way: One of our biggest supporters gifted us these cool jackets:

And another trash picking Sunday....

A nice still life that I can't resist posting:

Looks like the flowers to the right never made it to the recipient and somebody had to drown their sorrow in a horrible choice of alcohol. So the flowers were an exception but what you see here is typical for what we find. A lot of empty alcohol cans and bottles out there. Our guess is, that the ratio alcohol to non-alcoholic beverages is probably 50:50. And that's a lot for something you are not supposed to do. Anyway - here are our findings (there was another bag that I forgot to take a picture of) and a big THANK YOU to that anonymous person that discharged two of our bags before we could come and get them! It's nice to know that we have helpers out there :-)

 

 

February Update

The second Sunday in February was freezing cold. We went out there with ski gloves and insulated pants, but it was too cold to take any pictures. So here's the result sitting in our warm garage.

The following Sunday was very wet. It rained so much that we actually stayed home. But February 28 was the day to go! A perfect sunny day!

 We only made it half way to the end of Old Ballard Road, because we got sidetracked by the little creek on the left hand side. There was a spot that annoyed us for weeks where a lot of old tree trunks and branches got caught on a big tree. All the debris got stuck there and the fertilizers in the water ended up in this ugly carpet of foam. We stopped and removed all trunks and sticks so that the water could flow without any gunk sitting on top. This took an hour. Here is the little creek foam free:

We turned around and went back home, but stopped at the lower wetlands on the left hand side and cleared them out.  All in all our collection was quite impressive again:

 

 

There is a lot more our there...

The melted snow pressed down all the vegetation and we found a lot more trash than we've been prepared for. We filled all our plastic bags and found even more. All in all we filled three construction bags! We also met John, a Professor for immunology, and had a nice talk with him. Here are our results: