Lily on the shore

I've been waiting for this lily along the shore to bloom for the last few weeks.  I think it's getting close.  I thought I had gotten most of the trash off of this particular stretch of shoreline, but it is a busy picnic spot because there are a nice set of steps that go right down to the river.  With tax day yesterday a few folks probably needed that Sierra Nevada Nooner along with the pack of Newport smokes.  I don't know why but that is the most popular brand of cigarette packaging I find on my walks.  I picked up some cigarette butts today.  Even though the bottles and cans take up most of the bulk of what I find there are far more cigarette butts than anything else anywhere both in downtown and along the river.  You really can't begin to pick them all up.  It's not about getting people to stop smoking but providing them with places that they can dispose of their butts. There's good reason that we don't want this stuff in our rivers and landfills but can they be recycled?  See what New Orleans is doing to clean up their cigarette butt problem.
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/new_orleans_kicks_off_cigarett.html