Saturday, May 30, 2009

The things we eat-

Every time I see a lable on my produce that says "Grown in the USA" I get a warm fuzzy feeling, thinking that America might still grow food somewhere.

Then I realize the reality is, this only means that a Mexican citizen is picking my strawberries here and spending the money in Mexico instead of picking my starwberries in Mexico and spending the money in Mexico.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Blue skys and pink shirts.

Today we did a breast cancer walk encouraged by Josh's work. It was a beautiful day to walk for reason. Sunny, and bright with perfect blue skys to contrast all of the pink shirts.

The first thing they did was ask people who are either being treated for cancer, or a survivor of breast cancer to walk around the Rose Quarter. It was really moving, and a little sobering to how many people have struggled with cancer. It's not every day that you think about how many people fight, and how many people lose the fight with cancer.


The walk was great, everyone was really high energy and it was great to see so many people gather for a cause. It was also the first time I've walked across one of our fair bridges. I've lived here so long, but never thought to cross a bridge on foot. For me though, the best part of the walk was seeing my husband walking around in a pink shirt. I know everyone else was wearing pink too...but my husband never wears pink.




























Monday, May 4, 2009

Tales from my weekend.

I finally got my new chord today. I hope Vlad the sharp tooth will not distroy this one.

And finally the things I did with my weekend- On Saturday I drove up to a special starbucks because I was missing a friend who works there. I couldn't stay long, but it was so great to see her! Then I took my middle eastern brother-in-law to Costco. It was funny watching him go from table to table trying the samples and talking to all of the people sampling. I enjoyed this. It was funny.

Then on Sunday after Josh and I had brunch, were were pleasently suprised by a nice amount of sunshine and decided it was prime time to check out a trail Josh found in Salmon creek. It was along the creek and we saw ducks, and swallows, and cranes, but it didn't give me that out in nature feeling that I crave. This chances are, was because Salmon creek is lined with huge houses to one side of the trail.

Whenever I look at places like that, I imagin what the land used to look like, before we built houses and paved it. What did the northwest look like as virgin land? And as my brain erases the houses and pavement like photo shop in my mind, the image of this place unspoiled is breath taking.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind progress of paved paths, I just like to think about what people who came before me saw, and thought, the same way I think of what what people in the future will see and think. What I will see and think in the future as I grow and change and start taking a family to these spots.

I hope my children will be able to see the beautiful things I've seen. Breath taking views, and landscapes shaped by years of weather and time. I think this is more then anything why I am a conservationist. It's not about global warming to me, or about the ozone. It's about clean water for my children, and places for them to hike and swim. And having beautiful places to dream about taking their kids on nature walks and bike rides as I did on this little walking path.

See this, it started out about the random junk I did on the weekend and turns into a talk about taking care of the earth.