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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