Happy Earth Day!!

What a great day! I hope you are all enjoying this tree hugging, smelling the flowers, and picking up trash day. Currently it has been raining where I'm at, causing all of the dust that was blowing around earlier from the wind to settle and turn into mud.

Rain has always been enjoyable for me. It cleans the sky and waters the earth. This helps the plants but also raises the water table so the farmers can have water for irrigation in the summer. The fresh smell of the dirt and wet concrete rise up to meet the walkers after a rainfall, washing the earth and rejuvenating nature and myself.

I grew up in Idaho, where farming is still big. Idaho is also a desert, which some people wouldn't believe. But it's not the classic "sand covered horizon with cacti and lizards crawling on a rock" type. Southern Idaho from the West to the East is actually a Mountain Desert, known as Sagebrush Steppe. This desert is also in parts of Oregon, Northern California, most of Nevada, in parts of Wyoming, and Utah (from http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season8/forestsdesertswetlands/desertfacts.cfm). So the rain is always welcomed in Idaho. :)

Garden at Jane Austen's house in Chawton, England

Have you ever experienced different kinds of rains? Like the cold sleet that flies into your face in blustery wind or the soft pitter patter droplets that knock on the earthworms door. But my favorite kind of rain is the warm rain that falls during a warm night. Creating shiny droplets on the ground and in the sky like the stars.

This earth was given to us by God and His Son to enjoy and appreciate. Give thanks by doing a simple service for the earth by picking up the next piece of trash you see on the ground or plant some flowers or grow a garden!

I hope you will all be able to enjoy the plants around you and had a great Earth Day!