nene

For over a decade whenever I walked my dog I brought a trash bag and picked up littler.  Nothing was going to be worse than what I was there to pick up, anyway.   As I started working from home we walked together more often, and as she aged still more.  When she passed away I missed just getting out, and started removing invasives that were killing the trees by the nearby elementary school.  A couple neighbors saw me and started doing it, too.  Eventually we made a pile that required a dump truck to remove, and so far we've saved about a dozen trees.  It was wonderful to see them leafing out healthily this spring.