Happy Earth Day!

We planted pansies today for our front porch in honor of Earth Day!

Baylor was such a great helper.
The flowers are pretty.

Plants need water to grow.

Take time to smell the flowers.

When I taught school I loved reading Earth Day books. We read some of our favorites, The Lorax, Wump World, In My Garden, Which is Which?, and The Great Trash Bash.

Earth Day

I am the Earth

And the Earth is me.

Each blade of grass,

Each honey tree,

Each bit of mud,

And stick and stone

Is blood and muscle,

Skin and bone.

And just as I

Need every bit

Of me to make

My body fit,

So Earth needs

Grass and stone and tree

And things that grow here

Naturally.

That's why we

Celebrate this day.

'That's why across

The world we say:

As long as life,

As dear, as free,

I am the Earth

And the Earth is me.