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Red Badge of Courage…

It’s easy to see why James Taylor sang about North Carolina; there is nothing like a fine morning here. When I shoved off at 6:20 a.m. the sky was already in the early stages of the  blue that makes...

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An embarrassment along South Blvd. in Charlotte…

It’s official; the 4500 block of South Blvd. in Charlotte is an embarrassment of plastic, polystyrene and other trash dumped by nitwits. It’s the worst I’ve seen inside the city limits. I thought I’d...

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A stern message every hour on every channel…

My good friend Dave and I walk the golf course whenever we can. Yeah, there’s lots of golf talk, but we also yammer about bird species we see at our feeders and other mundane stuff. We don’t talk a lot...

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A foot soldier in a neighborhood war…

A quick scan of weather radar added a sense of urgency to this morning’s walk. What occurred to me as my coffee neared its brew cycle is ‘I’d better get a move on’ to beat what was churning through...

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The Good Samaritan…

I should learn to look at things other than sidewalks as I drive through my ‘hood. Yesterday I spied a McDonald’s bag that had disintegrated upon impact when it smacked the concrete along my route. The...

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Fault? Generations in succession…

I missed most of what went along with the Love Generation back in the 60’s. But on the seminal issues of the day – Vietnam and our screwed up-fouled up-polluted world – I recall that when it came to...

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10 photos, 10,000 words…

It’s hard to spin words about trash sometimes. Perhaps there’s something to the adage that one-photo-is-worth-1,000 words. If that’s the case, I’ll let 10 photos do 10,000 words worth of talking.

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Awash in plastic: An oceanic debris disaster …

You wanna know why I pick up someone else’s shit almost every day? Here’s why: A hell of a lot – 260,000 tons worth – of plastic fouls our oceans, enough so that 44% of sea birds and turtles have...

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A thanks to unsung heroes …

My friend and sometime photo contributor Sherry, in her own inimitable style, gave me a gentle prod last week. She called me out for my unceasing bitching about slobs – while never giving a pat on the...

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Pick Up Your Path is now an environmental blog …

Pick Up Your Path is taking a new route. It has always seemed to me that the personal efforts any of us make to control litter and trash are part of a vastly larger environmental picture. (It’s just...

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