Happy Earth Day everyone!!

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In celebration of Earth Day, I wanted to photograph the promise of nature’s renewal. I have to confess that taking these pictures was quite the challenge; between the gusts of wind, my essential tremors and forgetting my reading glasses, I am shocked that aside from the slight blur of the budding lilac, the pictures came out crystal clear. LOL

I wish that Earth Day was as important to most people as Christmas is because perhaps we wouldn’t have as many worries over the future as we do now given what has been happening over the past four decades. We only have the one planet to live on, you would think that we would take care of it slightly better.

It is exciting to see my Lamb’s Ear waking up, my Lilac budding, my Vinca Majora and my Bleeding Heart emerging, all ready to unfurl their flowers and leaves.  I also included my upright Phlox, they won’t be ready to bloom until mid summer, but they like to peek out of the ground as early as possible.

I hope that everyone takes a moment and enjoys their Earth Day, walking down the street, taking a drink of water, taking the time to bask in the sun and breathing in that spring time air. All that is possible because of our Earth, we desperately need to remember and appreciate it.

Happy Earth Day everyone!

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#Global Selfie Earth Day

What a production to get my tweet out there to NASA lol. Jack is with us and I don’t like to leave him in the hotel room, I also figured that Jack should be in my GlobalSelfie, because he lives on Earth and he loves our planet as much as I do. So I took him downstairs with me to the Business Center to print out the PDF for NASA tweet, he was a little squirrelly on my lap because he had to do to the bathroom, but since it was drizzling outside, I wasn’t going outside first to get wet and then come back in to print the paper and then have to go back out into the rain. Jack settled down after a bit and I got the printout and outside we went. Jack did his business and then I picked him up where he got squirrelly again, my thumb grazed the button and poof,poof, poof, three shots and I said to Jack “well that is going to have to do it, because we aren’t getting anything better looking than this, we were getting pretty bedraggled by this point.

I went through all of this because my first attempt came out very nicely, but I didn’t have access to a printer so my tweet doesn’t show any coordinates, a pretty picture without the details, so useless.

Earth Day is a special day for you, me and everyone in this world. 😀

Happy belated Earth Day!

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I can’t believe that I had forgotten about Earth Day, so to everyone out there Happy Earth Day! Ideally, everyday should be Earth Day, where the planet is celebrated and everyone is mindful of their imprint and the consequences of their purchasing decisions, their travel decisions and their food decisions. I read through my Huffington Post yesterday, but with the week of tragedy that we had, between the Boston bombing, the manhunt in Boston and the horrific fertilizer plant explosion in Texas, Earth Day didn’t even register. Most of the headlines were all about suspect #2 and his ties to Chechnya or lack of, his religious affiliations, his ties to community and everything else that could be gleaned from his social media and those coming forward volunteering information.

Now that spring is slowly blossoming to life, I hope that everyone takes the time to plant something, recycle as much as possible, take a bike or your feet if possible and to be mindful of what you are eating. Food choices are very important when it comes to honoring the Earth. Excessive packaging needs to be addressed and supporting local farmers is a boon to the planet, local means less transport. Moreover, less food processing means more love for your body. I just read recently that a few scientists have been studying the gut and its relationship to your health and they have found unanimously that processed foods deplete the good bacteria from your intestinal tract and that is bad for your overall health. They have found that a diet that is kind to the Earth, a diet high in fruits, vegetables, complex grains (non GMO’s) replenish the good bacteria that help to reduce inflammation. So that is another endorsement for the wonderful bounty that Mother Nature provides us with, it really is amazing the variety of healthy food that our planet provides us for nourishment. We would be remiss if we didn’t take full advantage.

I try to eat in a healthy manner so I have also given up for the time being my horrendous weekend ice cream habit. I am detoxifying my arteries and hopefully clearing away my share of belly fat. Belly fat is very unhealthy, fat on your buttocks and thighs as unsightly as it may be, is far healthier than any fat around the abdomen simply because the fat in the belly area puts too much pressure on your vital organs and stresses them out.

As time goes on, I have been trying to eat as well as possible so that I can feel better. You are what you eat, as the saying goes and sayings such as this one, are said for a reason.