A very good entry for Earth Day. I especially enjoyed your spiderweb photo. Back in the day you accompanied many of your posts with spiderweb photos and they were all gorgeous.
I got soaking wet so many mornings wading through the uncut pasture just after the sun crested the ridge, before the wind picked up, before the dew evaporated in a veil of fog anywhere a ray of sunlight met the Earth. Those are good memories. I have LOTS of pictures to prove it.
A very good entry for Earth Day. I especially enjoyed your spiderweb photo. Back in the day you accompanied many of your posts with spiderweb photos and they were all gorgeous.
I got soaking wet so many mornings wading through the uncut pasture just after the sun crested the ridge, before the wind picked up, before the dew evaporated in a veil of fog anywhere a ray of sunlight met the Earth. Those are good memories. I have LOTS of pictures to prove it.
Happy Birthday Fred.
We have forgotten the land ethic
That Aldo Leopold once taught
We have treated the land as a thing
That we can use and exploit
We have ignored the land's beauty
And its diversity of life
We have harmed the land's health
And caused it much strife
We have lost our connection to nature
And our sense of wonder and awe
We have become alienated from the land
And its natural laws
But we can remember the land ethic
And learn from Leopold's wisdom
We can respect and care for the land
As a community of interdependent parts
We can appreciate the land's value
And its contribution to our well-being
We can restore the land's vitality
And make it flourish and sing
We can reconnect with nature
And our own inner spirit
We can embrace the land ethic
And live by it
We can indeed.