With the official earth day being in April along with our weekly photo theme being earth, I’ve selected a few pics related to E.A.R.T.H. Just my way of having a little fun while keeping in mind how we personally use and care for earth’s resources.
- Energy
- Animals
- Rivers, Oceans, Lakes
- Trash
- Harvest
Energy
Harnessing the sun’s energy is one way power is generated. Energy that warms us, provides light, and allows us to cook and preserve food. Our adventure rig is outfitted with a full load of solar panels. Our solar provides us with A/C when it’s over 90F during the day, heats our water, refrigerates our food and even provides entertainment. As long as we can take in solar power, we can be off grid for quite some time.
I threw in the middle picture as a unique sun photo to share. It was the first time I’ve seen a rainbow halo circling the sun.
Animals
Wildlife in the US is quite diverse and depends heavily on open areas, water and food supply. We share the land with these creatures and with ongoing wild life and game management, we’ve found ways to co-habitat long term.
Rivers, Oceans, Lakes
Besides water being one of my favorite happy places it is also a lifeline. It provides life not only for us but for creatures and critters of all kinds. Besides the obvious use of drinking water and growing food, nourishing plants and animals, water also serves us by generating power and providing transportation.
Trash
Trash appears everywhere. Having trusted civic planners develop means for reducing trash and keeping it off the land, roadsides, public spaces is a continual challenge. Out in our recreational areas, parks, beaches, it can be a nightmare. Everywhere and I mean everywhere we go camping there is evidence of lazy humans just leaving their trash including pet and human waste. Maybe they “lived” in that spot for awhile, or perhaps a party crew carried in their fun and were too lazy to carry it out, but we never see a good reason for it to be present. The RV and outdoors communities continuously preach the pack it in and pack it out rule. Unfortunately, It’ll take much more than the RV community following the leave it cleaner than we found it to really clean up our open, outdoor spaces. Personal responsibility seems to be a forgotten civil duty.
As a practice we hike with a couple trash bags or even just our daypacks and pick up all kinds of not so fun trash. We also clean up our camp site upon arrival and take away others’ trash as well as our own; we’ve even removed the broken ironing board and nearly 1000 nails! On our stays along the gulf coast, new trash would land on shore daily. So, we made that our main activity and would take a morning and evening trash walk.
Harvest
Up until recently, my harvest was always found inside those automatic sliding doors of a local market. Now, I can see a sweet variety not only on my personal land but in our surrounding community. Back in my youthful 20’s I had a small garden plot. That activity faded away as the career and family grew. Now that I’m retired, a garden is in my future. While construction is still going on, I’m only committing to tomatoes and peppers. The tomato plants are pretty happy but the peppers haven’t sprouted yet. Before Spring 2025, a garden plan will be taking shape!
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Building Our Future Home Update
We’ve been back at the building site since the end of February. Not much has changed that you can see but a lot of plumbing and electrical work is getting done inside. As for the outside, just this week, the roof got completed. Roofing startup was slower than desired but we can’t control good old mother nature! The next big obvious shouse change will be getting the exterior completed.
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Wow, Cheryl the shouse is really coming along–I forgot it is two-story! Great Earth Day acronym to share your thoughts and images of Earth Day. What a sad testament to dealing with trash left behind. People are really lazy I’ve noticed in the last 20 years, when it comes to partying and just leaving everything at campsites. In NPs, if someone leaves their campsite with trash, I think they can get fined (if they camped under a reservation).
I don’t know if you saw yesterday’s Wordless Wed post–we visited Palouse Falls on Monday–they are spectacular. Next time you visit this way, you will have to check it out.
For some reason your last three images don’t show up…
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Palouse Falls is definitely one of those “what’s this doing out here” random finds. We detoured over to see it when we left the Spokane area after visiting you guys. That’s a great example of why I like to have a time buffer in my driving days; always awesome to meander a bit off the main path.
I believe you’re correct about the fines in parks; the trashiest areas I’ve run across tend to be BLM areas located not too far from civilization. Now I try to bypass and not depend on them for stopovers…I’ll do a Walmart or some other RV overnight friendly parking lot instead.
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