If you lived in the most beautiful house in your city, wouldn't you want to keep it that way?
Since we live in the most beautiful planet that any of us have ever been on, shouldn't we try to keep it that way?
More photos and thoughts under the cut.
I live in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, United States, Northern Hemisphere, Earth. It's a pretty nice place to be- especially in the spring when trees are blooming and the air smells like wet dirt.
Because I don't have a car I spend a lot of time walking. Because I like to be prepared I always have my camera with me. Here are some of the things I've seen in the last month as the winter has faded and the spring has arrived.
My camera isn't special. It's a little digital camera with a halfway decent macro and a lousy zoom. It's the world that is beautiful.
Most people respect and cherish beauty. They would never take a sharpie marker and draw a mustache on the Mona Lisa or throw trash on the ground while visiting a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home- so why are we continuing to hurt our round little world with mountaintop removal mining, drilling for fossil fuels in our last untouched places, and refusing to turn to alternate methods of energy production? I know that not everyone can live without a car, but we must be responsible citizens of our planet and conserve as much as we can. Earth is not just the most Beautiful Planet that we know of- it is our only home.
Please share your photos of your Beautiful World in the comments. I'm being pretty idealistic and even simple, I know. But maybe if enough of us look up and out, more people will see that our Beautiful World, our beloved pixel, is worth keeping that way.