...and it was good!

God saw all that He had made and it was good. - Genesis 1:31

Today is Earth Day....A day set aside to recognize the beauty of our world and it's resources.  Not too hard living where I do.  Everyday I drive past some of the most beautiful sites the eye could imagine.  I drive past, often in such a big hurry, I take for granted these many things that I have the pleasure of seeing everyday...

I would like to share a few of those things...

Pit River Bridge with Fall Colors...Photo by Joe Blackwell

The Fall River

Sunset on the Fall River

Might Oak

Snow in December

Burney Falls

Mt. Shasta

Take some time today to stop and look around at the beauty wherever you live.  On my walk this morning, the birds were chirping, the deer were in the orchard eating the green grass, there were duck pairs on the river and the sun was shining!  It is truly a beautiful day!

Some Earth Day Facts:

Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to watch a TV for three hours - it's equivalent to half a gallon of gasoline.

Earth Day was first celebrated on April 22 in 1970. More than 20 million Americans participated in this first Earth Day celebration

Never underestimate the importance of recycling: if every newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year. Unfortunately only 27% of all American newspapers are recycled.

More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.

Only 11% of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

The world's first national park was started in 1872 at Yellowstone National Park in the US.

"If God took time to create beauty, how can we be too busy to appreciate it." - Randall B. Corbin