Usually, I prefer summer, spring and fall. I find the brighter colors to my liking. However, since I decided to look for the beautiful in even the boring suburbs, I have noticed more of the small things. The world is not just grey, but brown, dark greens and the occasional icy blue sky. If you look closely there is gorgeous contrast everywhere.
This picture is taken from my porch. The “yard” is not very exciting. It is mostly evergreens that don’t change very much over the seasons. Then I spotted the birch tree at the end of the building. I love the contrast of the bare branches and the bright cloudy sky and the needled evergreen. The lighting was so strange – it looks almost black and white.
As the sun was going down out of view of our apartment complex I had minutes to take quick snapshots. I’m been carrying around my camera hoping to catch the perfect fall picture to highlight the beautiful northwest. Well, I spent most of my time this week running around doing errands and then waiting in a hospital for my newest nephew to be born.
I still plan to run to the beach someday soon to get more pictures. But the few I got today will have to do. Until them these will have to do.
For the last few months, more in the last few weeks, I have been working on updating our household to make it more “green”. It’s pretty cool, touches on my creative side and makes me feel like I’m being a useful person.
This morning I was online looking for “green living” sites and I found an awesome little tool, a carbon footprint calculator. It asked a few questions about your home, living habits and travel habits and gives you a number. The site looks like it might be a good resource. I shall inspect it further.
Here is the website. I challenge you to calculate your footprint and then see what else you can do to better your score!
http://www.lowimpactliving.com/pages/impact-calculator/impact-calculator
