It was a very beautiful, sunny, eventful nice weekend. It started early Saturday morning with me setting up my exhibit at the Great Unleashing at the
Bellingham High School. This was a "two-day celebration and extravaganza planned to motivate, excite, educate and engage our community in coming together to envision a vibrant, resilient, and dramatically less energy-dependent
Whatcom County, and will unleash our collective genius as we start working towards a tangible and compelling plan to get us there." by
Transition Whatcom. My exhibit was focused on Waste Vegetable Oil as a fuel, and I teamed up with another guy who did a
biodiesel demonstration. Check out the website on Transition
Whatcom, and check out the transition efforts in your area (
Transition US and
Transition Towns). I am confident everyone will be hearing a lot
more about these transition efforts in the near future. Anyway, I met many amazing people, listened to several informative talks and came out of this event motivated. Motivated that I will I am going to be a part of something HUGE. I am certain that we are all going to have some MAJOR change ahead of us, and we can either fear and avoid the change, or embrace and help facilitate it.
OK, enough about transitioning :) After this event we loaded up the cars for a once a year opportunity to see the tulip fields in full bloom in
Sakgit County. The conditions were perfect and the flowers absolutely amazing. Acres and
acres of bright, vivid colours. The girls' red
coat and sweater matched on color of tulips perfectly. We stayed until the sun set and then enjoyed the views on that, including "sun dogs". And drive home via the country roads (Farm to Market Road) and along
Chuckanut drive along the coast. It does not get more beautiful than this. Farrah fell asleep on the drive and
Kenzie stayed up so late she started acting silly, last seen doing
snowless angels with a dazed looked in her eyes, over and over on the bathroom floor. Life is good. We must all remember this. Me too. We have so much to be grateful for.
It was a very beautiful, sunny, eventful nice weekend. It started early Saturday morning with me setting up my exhibit at the Great Unleashing at the Bellingham High School. This was a "two-day celebration and extravaganza planned to motivate, excite, educate and engage our community in coming together to envision a vibrant, resilient, and dramatically less energy-dependent Whatcom County, and will unleash our collective genius as we start working towards a tangible and compelling plan to get us there." by Transition Whatcom. My exhibit was focused on Waste Vegetable Oil as a fuel, and I teamed up with another guy who did a biodiesel demonstration. Check out the website on Transition Whatcom, and check out the transition efforts in your area (Transition US and Transition Towns). I am confident everyone will be hearing a lot more about these transition efforts in the near future. Anyway, I met many amazing people, listened to several informative talks and came out of this event motivated. Motivated that I will I am going to be a part of something HUGE. I am certain that we are all going to have some MAJOR change ahead of us, and we can either fear and avoid the change, or embrace and help facilitate it.
OK, enough about transitioning :) After this event we loaded up the cars for a once a year opportunity to see the tulip fields in full bloom in Sakgit County. The conditions were perfect and the flowers absolutely amazing. Acres and acres of bright, vivid colours. The girls' red coat and sweater matched on color of tulips perfectly. We stayed until the sun set and then enjoyed the views on that, including "sun dogs". And drive home via the country roads (Farm to Market Road) and along Chuckanut drive along the coast. It does not get more beautiful than this. Farrah fell asleep on the drive and Kenzie stayed up so late she started acting silly, last seen doing snowless angels with a dazed looked in her eyes, over and over on the bathroom floor. Life is good. We must all remember this. Me too. We have so much to be grateful for.
I am so glad to hear that you have found your calling Travis.
ReplyDeleteBehind all the myths and spin-doctoring about "climate change" and the refusal of governments to actually get right down and do anything, this earth of ours is in dire trouble. It will take a groundswell movement such as this to start making people realise that we can actually make a difference if we work together.
Keep it up! You make me proud.
Love mum