Wow, there are some stunning photos this week from Canadian photographers–
Love the almost mystical quality of #4 and the old boat at #8 (I could think up a good ghost story with that picture alone…); and #17 -look at all the life this dead tree has given..a host for new life to begin again…
What a stirring, beautiful song. (Now THIS is what I’m talking about when I talk about music stirring the soul!) (hat tip to Global News Canada)
Thank you to Neil Young for making this available. The video is just stunning…how beautiful the untouched Earth is when left alone…and how quickly it is destroyed by thoughtlessness and lack of vision of the future…
Young isn’t asking for any contributions, but I’m sure this song will be available for download. If you’re able, please support him and this effort. We are all connected.
(this song was on my mind when I named this blog, fyi 🙂
We were treated to another spectacular cloud rainbow...
…this time, however, I was able to get a little bit of it captured with my cell camera. It was almost directly in line with our front door:
It’s a little hard to distinguish, but the little patch that looks white is actually the splash of rainbow. The sun was not cooperating. I was trying to block the lens from glare, but alas…
Anyway, I think the sun’s rays are pretty spectacular, too.
This week’s weather window has some absolutely stunning photos of winter serenity…although there is one photo of what looks like a mining operation…so yeah, color me confused….
You know I love the snow…but this is getting to be too much of a good thing. Well, I’d still take the snow, over bleak brown grass, but the cold is something else. Fourteen below wind chills…brrr…
And people refuse to slow down even when roads are slick. And it’s not just the young who drive like they’re brainless..like I said the other day, semi drivers were driving way too fast for road conditions, and tried to pressure me to do the same…
Now we have this pile-up on 94, near the northern edge of the state. Wanna bet it is due to speed? And not taking heed to stay home until the weather improved? I can’t believe the one person who died was on his way to visit relatives…it just seems so senseless. Now his relatives will be burying him…
This is why I love the law….if it is working properly (i.e., judges apply it fairly), then the “little guy” wins out even when being bullied by those bigger with $$ bank accounts. Woot.
This week’s photos of Canada. Note the chemtrail in #17…an otherwise beautiful photo spoiled by chemicals….
Update: Indiana actually noticed that there was a chemical spill upriver! /just a little sarcasm, folks
Reading this, though, Indiana just seems….passive. Cincinnati is taking a proactive stance in shutting off the water intake.
And, I have to wonder as I’m reading this, how will they separate the West Virginia chemicals from the toxins already in the Ohio River? Will they be able to tell which are our chemicals and which are Freedom Industries? /just a little snarky
Meanwhile, Louisville, Kentucky is business as usual. I just shake my head at the laissez-faire attitude “we will treat the water and make it smell and taste good.” WTH?
I want water that is free of chemicals, not just “taste good”. Charcoal is fine for removing impurities, but it doesn’t remove everything.
I found a couple of websites advocating bamboo charcoal for water filtration here and here. I haven’t tried these, but they do look promising…and since bamboo is sustainable, all the better. Finally, there this site on a primitive charcoal filter.
Reverse osmosis is supposed to remove much more–but it also removes needed minerals. Some sites suggest putting a high quality salt (that hasn’t had the minerals removed as they do with sodium chloride, or table salt) back in as a way to counteract it.
I had a tough time finding much information that wasn’t a company website, but this was the best one to explain what reverse osmosis removes.
A report here on Al Gore speaking out on geoengineering. I totally agree. The Earth is a magnificent living, breathing, organism that can take care of herself quite well, thank you, without any *help* from us.
What we need to do is put on our big adult pants and scale down the polluting. It means stop giving industry the right to pollute what belongs to all of us. Well, that’s not accurate, either, because it doesn’t really *belong* to us, but rather, we are borrowing it while we are here.
It’s not ours to do with as we please, but a gift to be cherished and given back….what a wonderful humble idea…
…meanwhile, that 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into Indiana waterways keeps flashing in my head….
Eagle 
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