trash picking up

Those rare times while picking up trash from the street, when I luck out by finding a large empty plastic shopping bag which I can use for picking up more trash, even the bigger more awkward items that don't fit well in the regular plastic grocery bags which I normally (re-)use for picking up trash. (It's so much easier when you have a *big* bag to put things in!)

Yesterday I found an unblemished metal spring in the shape of a sphere, tennis-ball sized. I wonder if it was an ornament, or what it came from.