all posts tagged: ‘earth’
Take Time To Smell The Lilacs
The lilac is one of my favourite flowers. Every spring, I wait with anticipation for the trees in my neighbourhood to bud and blossom. Once they are in full bloom, I can’t help but stop, sometimes in the middle of a conversation with my husband, to inhale their heady, sweet scent. I treasure this fleeting time of fragile blossoming.
But lately, it seems that the people around me are getting more and more insensitive to our natural surroundings.
40th Anniversary of Earth Day
April 22, 1970 was the world’s first Earth Day. This year, Thursday, April 22, 2010 is the 40th Anniversary! From its simple beginnings of gatherings in community centres and school class rooms throughout small towns and cities in the U.S. where the public could learn about the threats to our environment to a now global awareness with celebrations and educational events worldwide.
