What will you be today?

[Heartstrings]

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

[ChazII]

1. Jimmy Carter - Humble. n/t

[Butterflylady]

2. All of the above.

[Wounded Bear]

3. K&R...for all the great people included...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I will be myself--and that encompasses several of the choices listed. ♥

[idziak4ever1234]

5. It would be fascinating to juxtapose that with the best examples from the right

[Pacifist Patriot]

31. Robert Rauschenberg did a painting of that in 1951.

[Botany]

6. I will bee kind. I will plant plants that our native pollinators aka bees like

Heuchera richardsonii (Prairie Alumroot)

This plant gets a tiny little flower and a neat little native bee. (cellophane bee)

If you love the earth plant native plants this is critical.

https://homegrownnationalpark.org/

[pazzyanne]

8. + 1 nt

[Botany]

9. 1 out of three bites of food we put in our mouth comes from pollination and protecting the native

pollinators is very important.

[pazzyanne]

10. Hard working bees!

Where would we bee without them? I hope we never find out!

[NJCher]

12. yesterday I had a friend

He/she was a bumblebee and he followed me around the garden from raised bed to raised bed. Each bed has flowers in it, because I consider flowers in a garden to be as essential as tomatoes or cucumbers.

I as fascinated watching the bumblebee fly: like a helicopter.

I did not, however, see him on the tulips or the daffodils or even the creeping Charlie which has lots of blue blooms right now. Maybe he just satiated himself and wanted a companion.

[Botany]

14. Bumblebees are one of our native bees and so they are much more attracted to native plants.

If you get a chance watch a bumblebee on a native plant such as a bluebell because they
are "buzz pollinating" aka sonication because as they are getting nectar their bodies are
vibrating which cause the pollen to fall off the flower and onto the bee.

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

29. If I can find the milkweed plants that used to bloom

Around here about 4 plants I will gather the seeds into seed balls and scatter them everywhere.

You don't see many milkweed plants anymore.

Doing it for the monarchs

[BobTheSubgenius]

32. I love Heuchera, especially the ones with the deep red or variegated leaves.

We have a native green-leafed variety here people call Coral Bells. Not sure why.

[Botany]

33. Almost all Huechera can go by the common name Coral Bells or Alum Root

H. richarsonii is harder to find but it is one of the few Huechera that can take full sun
and it is drought resistant too. Its genetics come from "goat prairies."

There is a H. americana with green leaves, a H. villosa Atropurpurea with Purple Leaves, and another
native H. ?? that has multicolored leaves. All are native.

The nursery industry has bastardized the plant into things that sell but do not fill their needed roll
in the ecology.

BTW native Huechera like many native plants are much slower growing than the garden center/landscape
varieties.

[BobTheSubgenius]

35. Slower growing is certainly understandable.

The conditions around here are temperate rainforest, and it takes a specialized kind of plant to thrive.

Thanks for the info!

[nevergiveup]

7. My first and only ever poem

I am not good with words
and everyone knows it
but on this one glorious day
I will thrive to be a poet.

Peace to All

[moof]

11. Thank you

[Botany]

15. Harvey

Wilson : [Reading from an encyclopedia] "P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?"

[llmart]

13. I would rather you ask "What will you DO on this Earth Day"?

I'll be picking up trash near a wetland by my house. There's a sidewalk and a brand new wooden bridge that I can walk to from my house. There is also a 7 Eleven store farther down that sidewalk and the neighborhood kids buy their junk snack food there and ride their bikes and throw their trash over the railing into the water that leads to the wetlands.

I'm always amazed by what is floating in the water and sometimes it stops the normal flow of the water.

[mountain grammy]

16. K & R and thank you.

Just beautiful! Happy Earth Day from my mountain, where it's cold, gray and snowing.

This post so brightened my day.

[ShazzieB]

17. This is absolutely beautiful!

Thanks, Heartstrings!

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Happy Earth Day!

And I wish the Earth many more.

[CTyankee]

19. Wonderful post!

It inspires me.

[crickets]

20. Wonderful! Happy Earth Day, Heartstrings and everyone. nt

[burrowowl]

21. Happy Earth Day! Great post!

[NNadir]

22. Although I am not capable to be some of those things...

...any of them represent a good aspiration.

[LakeArenal]

23. I will be a good wife and friend in the second most ecologically friendly country in the world.

[housecat]

24. perfect. thank you

[AllaN01Bear]

25. me, myself and i.

and all of the above.

[liberalla]

26. Excellent!

[trof]

27. I gotta be me...

-)

[Drunken Irishman]

28. Drunk mostly. But a nice, humble drunk who causes good trouble.

[Stuart G]

30. For this day only....I will be a:...... " 100 year old tree in my favorite park"

[spanone]

34. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼K&R👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼