365 Photography Project_Take 2_Thirty-Second Post

[gaeln9796]

Tuesday May 15, 2012_I helped Katie and her garden club for a 2nd month, deadheading the roses.


Wednesday May 16, 2012_I met with Barbara for lunch, again in Willow Glen, but this time at Bills. Next time I'll get a photo of her!! She's seated, although I didn't know it when I took the photo, to the right of the server.


As some of you may know, here in the US, Saturday May 19th was National River Cleanup Day. I participated for the first time and, man, what a learning experience. This is a photo of just some of what was collected during the 3 hours we worked. A good haul.

This is the lovely Guadalupe River where we worked, which runs from the summit, I believe, in the Santa Cruz Mountains through downtown San Jose where it has been made into a 3-mile park.

Where I worked was between the mountains and downtown where River Cleanup workers, actually and sadly, found a body. Having watched as much NCIS as I have, don't think the possibility didn't cross my mind every time I parted the brush.


The photo to the left is of a fish ladder helping.

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Comments

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Looks like you did work hard, must have given a great sense of achievement to see what you had taken away from the river.

Glad it wasn't you that found the body, that would have been awful. Have to feel for the ones that did.

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

It was hard work and dirty, but weirdly enjoyable, satisfying, to make a junked up place clean again and the views along the river were so pretty. I do feel for those who made the discovery, what a shock.