Post Holiday Post

July 5, our Sunday morning walk...

Over the last 25 years, the city has gotten quite good about a quick pick up after The Parade and some of the church wards volunteer to tidy up as well so that in the residential areas you would never know that a parade has passed by and that some visitors just leave their trash and walk away.

Downtown is a little different because of the craft fair and all the food.  Most of it was taken down by Sunday but there were some workers when we walked by I think removing all the temporary electric lines.  It was stinky though and the sidewalks were sticky because of sloshed beverages. Oddly, it smelled like beer.

This year was complicated because the 4th was a Saturday and generally when we walk on downtown on Sunday mornings, the trash containers that are in front of the restaurants with outside tables, are full from Saturday night.  They stay that way until after we have passed that way on Monday mornings.  Pretty ripe.  Surprisingly, this year the small trash containers were emptied on Sunday.  Not the ginormous dumpster in front of my mechanic's though.

Here's my favorite picture of the aftermath, the corner of Center Street and 5N.