Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Critters

You never know what you'll come across when doing a roadside clean-up. Yesterday, I documented a few of the critters in various states of decomposition. There was the deer carcus - one of several.
A grinning raccoon-belly up.
A mouse.
A fish. Yes, A FISH! This is exactly the way I found it.
And then there were these two.
It was a beautiful day to be outside and fitting that we did this on Earth Day. Grandma and Grandpa insisted they go along and help. We did half in the morning with a long noon break and finished up late in the afternoon. We've been doing the same section long enough so that there's never a huge amount of trash- mostly bottles, cans and food containers. Today we filled 5 bags. That should do it til some time in July when we'll do #2 of 3 for the season.

6 comments:

Mama K said...

Oops! That would be "carcass"

Laurie said...

Jill and I were commenting about that.
Ashton's not going to like this post with the racoons....dead ones at that!

Mindy said...

yick. I have to say this post was a little gross for me. Glad I wasn't helping on the clean up this time!

Firefly said...

I saw the deer, and my first thought was wondering if it would be possible to sterilize the larger bones and make something out of them.

Mama K said...

Is the wild west rubbing off on you, Firefly?

Firefly said...

It very well might be. It's hard to tell. :D