A Green Day
Today was a day filled with green .. in terms of the environment, not money. Our town (some of friends really – not the town) set up a Greening Greenfield Group. This group has been working to raise money and consciousness around the environment to make this town better. Today was an ice cream social for people who have been helping.
Fantasy in Orange, Digital © Diane Clancy
It was utterly delightful to hear all the ideas for making this area more sustainable and having less impact on the environment. And they didn’t even know about Blog Action Day!! I am excited about the idea one local town is trying out. They are a test case of picking up compost at the curb!! I am so excited!
We used to compost and we started running a skunk cafe instead. The smell (skunk, not compost) was terrible so we had to stop. They chewed their way through the animal proof compost bin. One day one of the people who used to live her lifted off the bin and found a skunk in the bin … it was the beginning of the end.
Tomorrow is the big day – Blog Action Day
! I know many of you have been writing (and creating) already in preparation for tomorrow. I am delighted that the Greening Greenfield ice cream social came just in time for our Blog Action Day … or else you probably never would have heard of it.
I will respond tomorrow to comments and your blogs … time to live in harmony with myself and rest! I would love to hear about you!
~ Diane Clancy
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Wonderful that you live in a town where people care! I applaud you and your neighbors!
I love your Fantasy in Orange. I love how intricate it is and full of details and off center. It’s balanced, yet completely off balance. You should do more like this. The details are great! There is so much to look at. It is like a baroque painting, although many will claim it is like a batik. But I think it is too irregular for that. It is the irregularity that makes it so good.
Blog Action Day! Yes, I did not forget and wrote a post on it. Maybe we should have it once a year.
Hi Bobbie, thank you! It is amazing how many people contribute in different ways to so many many efforts!!
Hi Irene, I bet Blog Action Day will be happening again next year. I like that – a baroque painting … I agree. It is not quite delicate enough for batik I think.
Thank you all!
~ Diane Clancy
A wonderfully upbeat and encouraging post. Thanks to you and all of those who helped make GREENING GREENFIELD a reality. There’s not enough good news so such stories are so very welcome.
Tom
Hi Tom, thank you for the encouragement!! Good news stories are great, aren’t they? It has been different for me this week writing a lot about the environment. Here’s to GREENING EVERYWHERE!!
~ Diane
Thanks the post is delightful.
I like your site..
Regards
Hi…I Googled for beverley center, but found your page about A Green Day…and have to say thanks. nice read.