iPhone photo a day — day two

I took lots of pho­tos today but this one stood out. Not because it’s a good pic­ture, but more because it’s sad. I’ve never thought of myself as a sen­ti­mental per­son, but there’s some­thing quite sad about a pile of Christ­mas trees still rot­ting pub­licly in May.

This isn’t an offi­cial col­lec­tion point, just a bit of pub­lic land near the River Kelvin that folk assume is dealt with by the coun­cil so they stick their tree there in Janu­ary and for­get about it. The smell is bizarre — it smells like Christ­mas gone off. Such a sad end­ing for some­thing that brought so much joy.