Even after over two decades doing this, there are still moments of discovery, of awe, of unexpected stretching of the connections. Magic is something alive, that evolves and grows silently.
The garden, always offering its beauty so freely, always changing, being born and blooming and dying at the same time.
The lucky find this week – a box of vegetables and fruits! We went to get some stuff from the local hardware store, and when we came back there was this guy leaving a box beside the trash bins. Of course, we had to see if there was anything of use, and there it was, just as you see it in the pic below. We have been leaving some special treats to Exu Okkada, the Eleggua avatar that lives in dumpsters, so we’re sure this was from him! There are so many amazing things that we have found in the trash, I don’t understand how anyone would throw this perfect food away. Only one apple had a little blemish on one side, the rest was firm and clean, just ready to be used.
Never did understand the throwing away of perfectly good produce or food items. Happy you found that, a treasure indeed!!
People amaze me! It’s sad that they don’t realize what they have. To a starving person that box of food would have been more valuable than gold. Love the photos!
hooray for urban foraging! The things people leave in the garbage sometimes baffle me, there are so many hungry people in every country, even here in WA- women’s shelters, group homes for orphaned children, I can’t understand how whole foods could just be tossed for not being “pretty” to look at anymore…