Happy Earth Day! I have to be honest and admit that I haven't paid much attentions to Earth Day since my kids were young. It's different this year. With the virus shutdown, the earth has had some nice surprises. The traffic is down and people are not driving much, so pollution all around the world has dropped. I have been amazed that improvements have happened so quickly. Even the smog over Los Angeles CA has cleared out. The canals in Venice, Italy are clear and jelly fish can be seen swimming by.
I took this photo the other night when a storm was moving in. You can see a bit of the very blue sky. I love the lighting. You can see many blossoming trees behind our cottages.
Today was a very wet day. I took a few pictures of the flowering trees in our neighbor's yards. Since we took the 6 maple trees and one 1 cherry tree down last spring, we can see all the pretty trees in the yards around us.
My neighbor's apple tree. Last week there was only a few blooms and now it's loaded.
This is a photo from last year. Duane is in the orange jacket and Jim is in the plaid shirt. Duane took down all the trees and Jim was his helper. SO MUCH WORK! It had to be done as the trees were damaged and we were concerned they would fall on our fence or on our cottages.
In this photo, you can see how very large these trees along the back of the fence were. Duane took them down farther. We had to leave the big chunks in the back to dry. We hope to get them chopped up this summer for wood to burn next winter.
3 comments:
Happy Earth day to you too. It is amazing what a difference these few weeks have made. It was a joy to see the apple blossom on your neighbours tree. Nice to have a load of wood ready for the Winter. Take care.
We have a big beautiful earth; just wish we could all pull together and take better care of it.
And, I want to add, after having read your profile information, that we have so many of the same interests - even dolls and Dances With Wolves. I am also a retired teacher.
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