MindSpinner

On this Earth Day, I learned that my Toyota Corolla, which I drive about 20K miles per year, anually dumps somewhere around 11,680 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. That’s a ghastly amount. You’d think there’d be bricks of the stuff falling out the tailpipe.

On a somewhat brighter note, my deceased 12″G4 laptop will not also be polluting the earth, thanks to Apple’s recycling program.

As a pick-me-up, I stole away to a nearby wildlife education center for a couple of hours this afternoon. (The idea wasn’t to leave everybody behind; they just didn’t want to come.) I sat on a bench and read for a while, then strolled the paths, taking pictures of the local residents.

The weather was warm, the day perfect. The bears, for their part, knew just what to do.

The wild columbine grew here and there, as does the Wal-Mart columbine seeding everywhere in my garden. I think the wild columbine is prettier.

The eagle, whose right wing is inoperable, spoke out against the injustice of being flightless and a bird.

The goslings tucked themselves close in their mother’s wake. If they had been teenaged goslings, they would have been hiding in the reeds on the other side of the lake, talking on cell phones.