Blog Post 1 - A Walk in the Neighborhood

   On Tuesday, August 25th I took a short, thirty minute walk around my neighborhood to see if I could find a topic for my weekly blog post. While many of the prompts online involve animals, plants or other forms of nature, I wouldn't necessarily say these things were abundant on my walk. There were trees, grass, and small forms of shrubbery but no exciting plants or animals from what I could tell. What I did notice, however, was the amount of trash, cups and cans that were sprinkled throughout my neighborhood. 

    What is interesting about this is that if I wasn't intentionally looking for trash I most likely wouldn't have noticed just how much there actually was. While I was on my walk, I stepped on a broken glass bottle on the sidewalk and that was what initially caught my eye. I looked up from the broken glass and started to wonder if there was anything else lying around that could potentially be harmful to pedestrians, and that was when I noticed the cans. I finished my walk looking for other types of trash that I could take photos of and then eventually clean up myself. 

    Throughout this walk, I learned that trash is literally everywhere if you take the time to look for it. I drive past this street every day, for one reason or another, and have never noticed just how dirty it really is. It wasn't until I stopped and took the time to think about what it is doing to the surrounding environment that I finally noticed its presence. While I may not have seen everything I wanted on this "nature" filled walk, I found what I don't want to see the next time I set out on one.