Garbage truck awareness

This morning as I was driving girls to school traffic was stopped because a garbage truck was blocking our side of the road and there was no break in traffic going the other way to be able to move around it. So we stopped.

My first feeling was annoyance. And then I started looking around. On the side of the road were cat tails sticking out of the icy snow cover. I looked at them with a sense of wonder at the simple beauty. I have driven this stretch of road and never seen this sight. 

And it took a garbage truck to give me permission to see it.