I love walking on the beach around St. Marks Lighthouse on the Gulf of Mexico just 30 minutes from my home in Tallahassee. It's an isolated and wild beach, an area where the monarchs migrate to each fall and the whooping cranes wintered this year. Today red-winged blackbirds kept me entertained. I stopped for a long time and stood feet away from one in a bush as he warbled his song. And then I stepped on a Styrofoam cup.
A little further, an empty yogurt container kept the crabs company on the sand. A small tub, once holding bait sat on the rocks near the water. I picked them all up stuffing the trash in the bait container. And as I straightened up and began my walk once again toward the lighthouse, I stepped on a filled disposable diaper. That I did not pick up since I had not brought on my peaceful Sunday morning walk either plastic gloves or bags. Next time I'll come armed with both.
Who would come to such a place of beauty and leave such ugliness behind?
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