Pacific Garbage Patch

This is so discouraging, yet motivating. I am discouraged by how much damage we are doing to our planet, but seeing videos like this makes it more real to me and motivates me to do more. It gives me a reason to keep on what I am doing and find more to do. I really want to eliminate plastic from my life. Whether it is a hazard to my health is already a worry in my head, but when I see how gross it making our planet as well, I have to try harder.

Vega Smoothie Photo Contest

I don't know if there is anyone out there reading this blog, but if you are I would love some help with a photo contest I entered. It is one of those where the photos with the most votes win. I have my eye on the blender prize, which means I need to come in somewhere between 2nd and 11th. Voting goes until August 15th, 2010 and each email address can vote once every 24 hours.

If you would like to help me out by casting a vote for my photo, you can go to the Where Will Your Smoothie Take You contest page and this link will take you straight to my photo. Thanks and smilies to all.

A Different Sort of Video- Taylor Swift "Thug Story"

I really like this girl.


We will see how long this video stays up.

Music Staff in Nature - Birds on a Wire

Music is part of who I am. When music and nature intertwine like in this video, it is so overwhelming for me, it is almost hard to breath. This is beautiful. Check it out.

Cat's Eye View

Cooper:Photographer Cat Website

Get your own cat cam here

The Other Blog

I must confess - I have another blog. I don't suppose that it makes any difference that since I have been blogging elsewhere, I have also been blogging more here? Maybe you will visit me at both?

Journal of a Wannabe Foodie

Gush, Gush. a.k.a. Being Green

I long to write a non-fiction book. I have so many ideas for books I could write. Do you remember how Seinfeld used to be called the show about nothing? Some writers can write about nothing and make it one of the best reads you've ever had. Some can take a good concept and make nothing of it. I have no confidence in myself (as a writer) and am very terrified that I am the latter type.

I am only 22 pages into the book Sleeping Naked is Green ad yet the book is already making me green (with envy) and doubtful of my abilities. Although the author is not making something out of nothing- she has a great concept- I just find her writing so witty and thoughtful. I cannot imagine myself coming up with some of her very original comparisons, such as, "...they offer one of the most widely available natural products lines around, a bit like the financially secure but pot-smoking cousin of Proctor & Gamble." She is beautifully descriptive in a way that adds oodles of character to the book.

The author is very casual in a delightful way. She has the confidence to say what she wants to say without getting all technical and formal. "...humans have been relying on their senses for centuries to gauge wht's good for them and what's not- which is why the sight and smell of rotting food sends yuck signals to our brains..."

I'll let you know how I feel about the other 243 pages.