Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22 to support environmental protectionism. In honor of fifty years of Earth Day, here are five frames.
Dawn at Fulton Harbor
This is a shot of Fulton Harbor taken at dawn from the grounds of the Inn at Fulton Harbor. You can see the clouds out over the Gulf of Mexico and the boats in the middle ground illuminated by artificial light.
A Frog
Here’s a frog! Who doesn’t like a frog? I spotted him in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, which we were visiting to look for whooping cranes. See my post The Birds of December. He looks sleepy to me. Maybe he turns into a prince…
A Nice Red Bird
This is a Northern Cardinal. He was officiating the activities at the bird watching area in Goose Island State Park.
The Big Tree
Say hello to The Big Tree. The Big Tree is a coastal live oak that lives at Goose Island State Park. It’s trunk is a little over thirty-five feet around. It is hundreds of years old. It is big.
A View from the Top
This is a view from Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas. It isn’t ugly.
What a Wonderful World
Louis Armstrong sang it best: What a Wonderful World.
Walt Kelly’s Pogo comic strip on Earth Day in 1971, showed Pogo and Porky Pine crossing the swamp. In the last panel, it becomes clear that they have been walking on accumulated trash, prompting Pogo to observe, “Yep son, we have met the enemy and he is us.”
We only have one world, let’s take care of it.
These photos were taken with a Canon 6DII wearing either a 24-70mm F2.8 Canon zoom or the Canon 100-400mm zoom. The exception is “View from the Top”, which was taken with my cell phone. The photos were processed with Darktable, which is free darkroom software for Windoze, Mac, and Linux. The Canon photos were processed from RAW files.
Great Blog with photos and message.