I did the last mowing of the season on the Rt. 17 medians this morning. I always find interesting junk alongside the cast-off water bottles and Marlboro cigarette packs (it’s almost always red-carton Marlboros), but today’s finds were the oddest yet. Two pairs of white tights, one sheer one patterned. The sheers had been worn with brown leather shoes, based on the staining. Both were in the grass at the far northern end of the median.

They, along with a windshield wiper blade, several Marlboro packs, a couple of bottles and a length of thin blue plastic tubing went into the trash at the end of my work. I cannot help but wonder, though, how did they get here?