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

p.3 Hi, Sundar. I love to watch pelicans dive. Each dive is a perfect "10" and they put on quite a show.

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...

And they can be vicious, brazen and rabid.

You are absolutely right!

Hi, Lesley. Attached is a pict for "Looking Up" 5/6 to 11

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.

Some beautiful places on this earth.

You took something sad and transformed it into beautiful images. The devastation is so hard to imagine.

Swamps, Mosquitoes and so important to many wildlife.

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.

These are hysterical!