Today we hauled trash from our river, the Skokie...someone spotted a crayfish as it jumped from a submerged roll of carpet and lost itself in the mud. This synthetic fiber carpet was not obviously deteriorated after at least three and a half years submerged under the current.

The two bike paths meet at the "Rainbow Bridge," the old carpet was dropped, as I observed from the north side of the structure, a short walk from roadside parking or perhaps from some nearby home. I saw it there, and then after a large rain, it was gone, swept into the downstream mud.

Disposal has become a costly matter and, like at the river, garbage and bags of garbage are left anonymously on the side of roads. We've all seen this, haven't we, I suppose, maybe they think the other guy will clean up the mess.

Aren't there those who care? Care enough required for saving the WORLD! Check it out and make a difference. In your community, talk to people, share your appreciation of nature. We must all do what we can, a million points of change, vision the future!