earth & water

Christine April 22nd, 2009

quiet-boat

Like so many others, I too would like to recognize Earth Day. In some respects I strive to make each day around here a mini-earth day but it’s moving to see so many people joining together on April 22.  It’s good to take a moment of reflection about where we are going and what we as individuals and families can do to help make things better for all living beings on this beautiful, blue and green planet.  As many of you know my big thing is quiet water — actually, human powered craft of any kind turns me on! Humans have been messing around in boats for a long, long time and for many of us it is in our blood to paddle.   In several aspects we are of the water.    Here is a link to a Dutch woman who has built a remarkable wind powered craft and set it to sail on its own out to sea – unmanned.  Or in her case – unwomaned.  It has a propeller system built onto it which always points it with the wind and the project is rightly so named:  Wind vinder

windvinder

“Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean an unmanned “windship” makes its way through the waves – almost transparent, people say, wings everywhere… and it is headed, without a doubt,  INTO THE WIND ! Born in 1971, Wipke Iwersen spent a great deal of her childhood and youth on the North Sea, on the sailing ship that belonged to her grandfather and then to her parents, and of which she herself is now the skipper.”

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8 Responses to “earth & water”

  1. # reon 22 Apr 2009 at 10:37 am

    Your photographs are beautiful

  2. # Jennyon 22 Apr 2009 at 11:08 am

    I can’t swim Christine, but that canoe makes me want to get out on that lake! (-:

  3. # Deborah Godinon 22 Apr 2009 at 12:57 pm

    Your photo is simply captivating, I don’t want to look away (maybe it’s time for a new desktop background). And it was neat to read about the wind-powered ship out there sailing. What an irony if it were to be tangled and caught in that raft of plastic flotsam…

  4. # Geogypsyon 22 Apr 2009 at 8:58 pm

    You are so right, every day is Earth Day.

  5. # reon 23 Apr 2009 at 1:29 am

    Hello thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. Re pricking the tulip stem to stop it drooping, you do it right at the base of the flower.

  6. # Alexanderon 23 Apr 2009 at 7:41 am

    Beautiful and sharp photos.
    I really like the composition of them all.

    Happy earth day. :D

  7. # Sandyon 23 Apr 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Great shot! How does she go? I feel the same way about passage through the woods, Christine. Give me snowshoes if I can’t go without. But no power vehicles, please.

  8. # Beth Pattersonon 24 Apr 2009 at 7:30 am

    There’s that lovely canoe that’s been itching to get out and play!
    Yahoo! I haven’t had my kayak out yet–but very, very soon…

    Thanks for these lovely images and words–

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