Earth Day

As well as celebrating my birthday tomorrow, it is also time to celebrate our mother earth. This picture, taken by Apollo 16, illustrates the beauty and fragility of our small blue planet. Let's take care of her, since this small blue ball is the only one we have.

Photo courtesy of NASA.

Random thoughts on Earth Day

This will be a blog of random thoughts since those are about the only thing I am capable of at the moment. First of all it is now 21 degrees Celsius (70 degrees F for non metric folks) and yesterday it was just as nice. Finally some warm weather, seems strange that only a week ago we were in the middle of a snow storm.
Today is also Earth Day, nice of them to celebrate the whole world at the same time as my b'day. Makes one feel kind of...... hmmm old? I hope they'll treat me better in my old age than they do the earth, cuz if they treat me the same, I'm sure in for a rough retirement. ;o) It's in spring that we realize how much garbage we dump on poor old mother earth. When the snow melts, there is garbage everywhere, plastic bags, different types of beverage containers, fast food take out stuff, paper, cardboard, miscellaneous junk, un-picked up doggy-do (I hate people who are too lazy to clean up after their stupid pets, almost makes me want to go buy a bag of ripe manure and dump it, in a pile, on their front door steps.) and that is just the stuff we can see. We sure could make more of an effort to clean up our acts, because if we don't, sooner or later, old mother earth will do it for us because she has before (just ask the dinosaurs or the trilobites) and she surely will again. The dinosaurs probably got wiped out because like dog owners, they kept leaving gigantic piles of dino-poop all over the place and mother earth got tired of the mess. ;o)
I went to see godwhacker's blog just now and he had a very interesting article for Earth Day. There may be hope yet, but then again I'm sure that the world's governements will find a way of screwing everything up.