Deck the… Trash?
When Hurricane Ian roared through Florida in September of this year, the city of Sarasota, on the western coast, was not as badly hit as communities to the south. Kathy and David Thomas’s home was spared, but fronds of the royal palms they and their neighbors treasured were snapped off and lay scattered all over lawns and streets.
The Thomases waited for weeks for trash collectors to pick up the palm debris. When that didn’t happen, and still didn’t happen, they decided to make something festive out of the brown and broken fronds.
They decorated the palm pile with white lights and planted an American flag at one end. “I tried to make it look like a boat,” said David Thomas.
“You can’t control the things that come in,” added Kathy. “It’s how you deal with it.”
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