White Plastic Bags in Winter

White plastic grocery bags blend with the snow--to a point. But the shape give them away. Snow is flat and covers the ground with its pristine veneer, while plastic bags give themselves away by blowing in the wind, as if to remind us of their flagrant trashy nature. Even when you can't pick them up and fill them with trash, still, pick them up. They aren't snow and no one is fooled.

Trash knows no season. Neither, then, should our efforts to create a neighborhood we can be proud of.