Trashy Divas and climbing skeletons

After the massive amount of rainwater that flooded the Santa Cruz River during the monsoon, I’d hoped that all the trash and debris that gets dumped into the river had been swept downstream to the Colorado and perhaps beyond. Well, maybe some of it was, but not all. So the local environmental group Tucson Clean and Beautiful (and a handful of other organizations) held a riverside clean-up on Saturday.

It was my good fortune to end up with a great group called the Trashy Divas [and Dudes] picking up stuff from the now dry riverbed near downtown.

(This was not my first river clean-up: I’d picked up trash alongside the Los Angeles River with the Friends of the Los Angeles River organization on a couple of occasions. It was a very cool thing to do there, not to mention that it was environmentally important.) Left, This stack of plastic bags of trash was collected within less than a half an hour and more kept piling up.

Clean Up with a Free T-shirt

A sub-group of Tucson Clean and Beautiful, the Trashy Divas get together twice a month to pick up roadside debris at A Mountain (aka Sentinel Peak) and riverside trash near the Garden of Gethsemane. They make cleaning up trash fun! And you get a free T-shirt, too! So I’ll be out doing roadside pick-up with them again. (BTW, it is the best kind of environmental group: no officers, no meetings, just really friendly people who are actively improving the environment.)

Okay, here are a couple more photos of the Trashy Divas.

“Kiss the Garbage Can” — what a perfect image for Trashy Divas. That’s A Mountain in the background.

Now for those skeletons

In keeping with the Halloween season, the Hotel Congress now has three skeletons climbing the exterior. PLUS some red cut out flames on the roof that probably look awesome at night.