Easter, Earth Day & Unexpected Gifts
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Earth Day focuses on activities that create a more sustainable future. Current inactivity, however, shows there is a positive aspect to simply staying indoors. The pandemic, so devastating to humans, has yielded the unexpected gifts of bluer skies and reemerging wildlife.
It would be incredible if people everywhere stayed home voluntarily for a scheduled time each year, after the virus is overcome, for a healthier planet. It likely won't happen but it's worth noting this stay-at-home policy produced a less shaky ground, drop in air pollution, and clearer water in places like Venice.
Staying close to home, it was time to revisit our 2010 trip to Venice. It was a joy to recall the wonderful sights and unusual atmosphere. With almost no background hum of car traffic, other sounds came alive: the silky swishing of oars, seawater slapping St. Mark's Square, and the wing-like flapping of fabric in mid-air. Now, as I listen outside my window in B.C., Venice's strange sensations seem to be seeping in everywhere.
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Visit Postcards From Penelope Puddle and Penelope Puddlisms: BC Life Is A Whale Of A Ride to view more West Coast scenes.
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Hello, lovely scenes from your trip to Venice. It is a beautiful city. I find it amazing how much difference our Stay at home time has made our air and water cleaner. Our earth is happy when we stay at home. Enjoy your day, Stay safe and healthy.
ReplyDeleteLast September, we visited Venice before going on a cruise. It is certainly a beautiful city. A totally different way of life. Enjoy your day, Take care and be safe.
ReplyDeleteI hope we don't crack apart any time soon. It was fun to take a ride through your Venice shots
ReplyDeleteFor Venice the Coronavirus was a blessing ! The water is clean again. I have been to Venice several times and it was really very dirty. My husband's family doesn't live far away from there.
ReplyDeleteLovely photos of Venice ~ what an adventure for you ~ yes we humans have polluted our dear Mother Earth ~
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A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
It would be nice to think we would learn our lesson from this pandemic, and begin to live more in tune with nature, instead of pursuing an aggressive adversarial relationship with it. Sadly, I don't have much faith that this will happen.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos. I would like to think that we would learn from this experience. At the very least, get people thinking more about all the damage we are doing to this planet on a daily basis, and to be more thoughtful about our actions. Our future depends on it!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos, full of live and so exotic.
ReplyDeleteOh Venice is such a dream! Sad I wasn't able to include it on last winter's itinerary but hopefully someday I can see it for myself too! But for now, these photos you shared took me to its magic!
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