Winter Foreshadowing….

As I was cleaning the kitchen up this morning and the sun was starting to come up, I could see these white frozen spider webs from my kitchen window.  The blue “paper recycle” bin made for the perfect back drop to see the pattern.  So cool.  Definitely a camera moment.  Then I got a bit of winter foreshadowing as I ran out in flip flops and no jacket to take the picture.  German Winter is just around the corner….we are starting to feel it. 

The blue bin is for paper recycle, the brown for yard compost or food other than meat.  The black is for garbage (not pictured).  The yellow “GELB sacks” are for tin cans, and anything plastic.  All glass we save on the patio and have to drive it to the Village glass recycle center.  Ours is just up the street from us on the way to Porrbach our little neighboring Village.  Germany has quite the extensive recycling program.  I’ve come to accept it and actually like to recycle.  The paper bin and the compost bin are just as big as the garbage bin.  They only collect the garbage and the yellow sacks every other week, the paper blue bin once a month and the compost every other week.  If we did not recycle as much as we do, we would not be able to survive with our one black garbage bin.  The food from the house though…..I have never been good at taking out to the compost bin.  I guess in that sense, I’m still an irresponsible American:)  Shhh….its my dirty little secret.