Every now and then it’s good to purge stuff that has been building up over time. With my river project, I do this by emptying out my collecting bag(s) to make way for new finds and by deleting images stored on my camera’s memory card. I have gotten into the habit of using the memory card as another form of digital storage just in case something bad happens to all the other places I store data. In this post, I will feature favorite images of plastic flotsam and jetsam I have gathered at the river’s edge the past two months. I will start with the image with the flip-flops and Croc-like shoes. These are tiny to small kids’ sizes. A few weeks a go, I picked up eight of them along a favorite walk and realized once I reached my outdoor studio that they were all meant for the right foot! I have since added a few extras, but the initial shock of realizing there were no left shoes remains. I wonder if subconsciously I selected for right-footedness? Anyway, here is a still life photo portfolio of other plastic river junk toys.
One last item and while it is not made of plastic…is nevertheless memorable.
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Somewhere in Kentucky, somebody is posting a blog pic of 11 left-footed shoes that they found along the riverside. Ha…
This was a truly subtle and weird moment at the river to discover I was only picking up right footed shoes!
I noticed the right-footed shoes before I read the post. Strange. And that disembodied boy’s head is downright spooky, yet I keep going back to it, shudder and quickly scroll away from it only to scroll back to take another look. And shudder again.
No doubt about it…odd stuff is coming down the river. The disembodied head I believe is from a Ken or other Barbie type doll. I don’t even show you the more graphic river dolls I come across that look like little CSI crime scenes. Now those images are a truly spooky collection. Nice hearing from you and hope you have been well.