judy juul wrote:
Wow! Those storms must have been very scary!
Very - how's California, JJ?
Just Ducky wrote:
From our kitchen window…
Beautiful fragile fringy Japanese Maples
Storms have ravaged our coast. Yesterday, the Coast Guard returned a HUGE buoy to its place in the ocean - it had been uprooted from it's mooring and washed ashore during in one of the recent storms. Earth Day/week brought out many groups to clean up miles of shore line.
Walkways that never see water, were undermined.
Ocean rocks and debris washed waaaay inland.
Long lost lobstere traps broke from their buoys and wound up on the sand
sundar wrote:
Here is one from me.
p.3 Hi, Sundar. I love to watch pelicans dive. Each dive is a perfect "10" and they put on quite a show.
Just Ducky wrote:
I love the look of the guy (round meter face) near the bottom! 😆🤣😆🤣
I didn’t get any official “Earth Day” type photos but I’d did get these… 😊
Thanks, Ducky! Your series shows the beauty to be had on this earth and compelling reasons to take care of it.
A few of my favorite environmental reminder signs...
OldCADuser wrote:
With respect to your sign about co-existing with Coyotes:
And they can be vicious, brazen and rabid.
Barre wrote:
I need to find just such a place. There's lots of macro photography to be had. Rust rocks
You are absolutely right!
Hi, Lesley. Attached is a pict for "Looking Up" 5/6 to 11
photophile wrote:
A few more:
Great examples of co-existence, Karin.
I'm wondering if it's the same in other formerly rural places...each home had a place where they "dumped" their garbage, bottles, trash. There was no trash pick up and composting was unheard of. You drove a vehicle or used a tool till it could no longer be repaired - and then you dragged it to the edge of a field/tree line and dropped it
A few "drag and drops" - they never completely decay back into the earth, they do become homes for some animals, but they also tend to leak chemicals into the soil. Some become long lost treasure parts for someone looking to restore old vehicles.
OldCADuser wrote:
That October 2020 fire resulted in us having to evacuate due to the bad air quality. There was virtually no chance that the fire itself would threaten our home, but the air quality got so bad that most of our side of the city was forced to leave for a couple of days until the fires was knocked down. We were fortunate as a friend let us use their condo down the coast in San Clemente until we got the all clear. Below is a view of Pacific from the patio of the condo. We almost hated to go back home
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Some beautiful places on this earth.
JayRay wrote:
Earth Week: Sunsets through forest fire smoke
You took something sad and transformed it into beautiful images. The devastation is so hard to imagine.
photophile wrote:
Here are some earth related...
Swamps, Mosquitoes and so important to many wildlife.
OldCADuser wrote:
I took a slightly different approach, focusing on how the 'Earth' impacts us...
An approach I had hoped someone would take.OldCAD. Speaks to climate change and how we have impacted earth. The 1974 damage looks like 2024 damage folks are still cleaning up around here.