Today is curbside recycling day. Every Wednesday the Waste Management Company picks up trash, a separate paper and plastic recycling bin, and on alternate weeks, yard waste. I’m waiting for the day (soon) when we can add food scraps to the yard waste. The recycling program in Portland is pretty good.
Credit: Joyce Levear
But…here in the Willamette Valley, my favorite recyclers are seasonal. This spring, when the days were longer and sunshine reigned (pun intended) my neighbor phoned. “Carol, look out your front gate.” While I looked, she snapped a photograph. Here’s my favorite recycler at work.
Our avian friend is recycling a fox squirrel that perished in a collision with an automobile. Hey, it’s the circle of life. Hakuna matata, for all you Lion King fans. A lot of folks find turkey vultures repulsive; I say they’re urban heroes.
