Earth Day is Every Day!

Earth Day is Every Day!
By Adrienne Provenzano

The Bird Woman seeks and the Bird Woman finds.
The Bird Woman looks with her heart and her mind.
The Bird Woman hopes and the Bird Woman waits and waits.
Till something wonderful happens!
Like a butterfly emerging from its tight cocoon.
Or bullfrogs leaping in the heat of June.
Like a heron flying in a soaring arc.
Or a moth making motions in the evening's dark.
The Bird Woman seeks and the Bird Woman finds.
The Bird Woman looks with her heart and her mind.
The Bird Woman hopes and the Bird Woman waits and waits.
Till something wonderful happens!
 She snaps a picture and captures a scene.
When the ground is white, or the ground is green.
When the sky is clear, or the sky is cloudy.
Then she takes her treasures home, till another day dawns.
She takes her treasures home, till another day dawns.
The Bird Woman seeks and the Bird Woman finds.
The Bird Woman looks with her heart and her mind.
the Bird Woman hopes and the Bird Woman waits and waits.
Till something wonderful happens!
And something wonderful, something wonderful,
Something wonderful always happens!


Gene Stratton-Porter understood the Earth as an ecosystem, long before that term came into use. She appreciated the natural world using all her senses. Wednesday, April 22, 2020 is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and event established to celebrate our planet. Our global home.
Whether you call is the Pale Blue Dot, the Blue Marble, Spaceship Earth, or something else, we all share time and space on this unique place.
I wish everyone a Happy Earth Day! Here are few ideas for what you might do to celebrate. Check out www.nasa.gov/earthday and https://nasa.gov/content/earth-day-2020-50th-anniversary-toolkit, as well as www.earthday.org for lots of images, videos, educational resources, and information. Look for Gene Stratton-Porter's fiction and non-fiction works online. Go on a journey with a story by a Friend of the Limberlost, like  Bill Hubbard's new online book "Billy Jim Explores The Limberlost (free under the Resources section of this website!) or (re)read one of Ken Brunswick's books, or browse through whatever nature book you've been planning to get to "someday." Catch up on reading the Friends of the Limberlost newsletters and blogs. Enjoy the photos and videos on the Friends' Facebook page. Spend a little time in nature, in the Land of the Limberlost wherever you are.
 
Adrienne Provenzano is a Friend of the Limberlost, Advanced Indiana Master Naturalist, and volunteer NASA Solar System Ambassador. 

Earth as seen from Apollo 17.

Earth as seen from Apollo 8.

Great Blue Heron. Photo by Randy Lehman.

Sunset over wetlands in Geneva on April 17 2020 by Terri Gorney.