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Outside my window

Visitor

This little character showed up for a few days.  Cuter than heck.  Sad to say the neighbor’s cat put an end to his colorful life the same day these photos were taken.   I never would have noticed this beautiful animal if I hadn’t looked out my window, away from my computer monitor. Some people may not quite understand why I get so wrapped up in the natural world.   All I can offer is that a lifetime of observation brings its own rewards. Sometimes it is difficult to tell what things were like just from a picture.  Here is a soundtrack of eight minutes in my San Diego backyard the day these photos were taken.

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August 1, 2011

Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Backyard, San Diego, August 2011
Earth, Man and Nature, Sacred Sky Sacred Earth

Sacred Sky Sacred Earth new website

Summer is a time-proven golden opportunity to run special interest agendas through when you do not want a bunch of people to know what you are up to. Case and point would be Granite Construction Corporation’s euphemistically named “Liberty Quarry” project. Problem is that they have chosen a section of land to develop which would spell the end of the last wild river and the last wild life corridor in Southern California. LAST. Ain’t no more. All bought up, paved, built on and converted to contemporary ideas of civilization.

I recently became aware of this project as it would mean the destruction, actually the erasure of sites which are sacred to the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians. Having grown up with sacred sites on the islands of both sides of my family (Crete and Samothrace) I have an idea of what their loss would mean – especially to future generations.

Long story short, I will be spending more time updating the new Sacred Sky Sacred Earth website than adding to this one. Please visit by clicking the image below and signing a petition to help save this LAST section of land from destructive development.

Petition

SAVE THE LAST RIVER

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Granite Construction Corporation’s proposed Liberty Quarry project is inconsistent with the needs and land use within the targeted area of southern Riverside County.

The Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve is part of uninterrupted forest adjacent to the proposed quarry. On this same land, the existence of the last wildlife corridor between the coastal Santa Ana Mountains and inland Palomar Mountains is threatened. The Santa Margarita is the last free flowing river in Southern California and is in danger of becoming polluted. Failure to consider cultural, environmental, and social issues beyond the letter of the law will lead to irreversible consequences within the vicinity of the site and at locations distant from the site. These include threatened loss of Native American Sacred Sites, pollution of groundwater, pollution of the Santa Margarita River from quarry runoff, pollution of the drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendelton, loss of San Diego State University-based research funding and ultimately, loss of the LAST pristine, wild river and wildlife corridor of Southern California’s American West.


Take Action

“All it will take for Granite Construction to triumph is for good citizens to do nothing.” —Edmund Burke (with respect)
A 1,000 residents of Temecula gathered to make their voice heard

Don’t let cynicism rob you of your will to speak up for what you know is right. If you elect to do nothing to speak for the land which cannot speak for itself, the corporation will win through the default of your inaction.

Send the petition below, post on FaceBook, make calls to your elected representatives, tell your friends, read more about what we all stand to lose if Granite Construction Corporation has their way. They may win anyway. Guaranteed you will sleep better at night knowing that you at least tried to make a difference.

Help ensure the survival of this important area, including the last free-flowing river in Southern California by signing this petition: [emailpetition id=”1″]

Once you have signed the petition, you may share the petition with your friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter using the buttons provided.

Liberty Quarry

et tu…?

 

Darrell Issa is taking contributions from Granite Construction. They want to build a huge, open pit quarry in Temecula that will not only be a huge scar on the landscape, it will be an environmental problem. It will put 1400 of those huge trucks on I-15 every day. It’s going to cause silica dust to be blown into Temecula valley, and the way that the environment is there, there’s a nice breeze that blows in from the Pacific, which is why people like to live in Temecula. What that breeze is going to have in it now is the same thing that causes black lung disease, Miner’s Lung. You’re going to have a whole generation of children growing up with asthma and lung disease as a result of this quarry. Darrell Issa takes money from this company, and you can’t tell me that that doesn’t influence his decisions.

— Jeeni Criscenzo

Air, Earth, Existence, Health, Man and Nature

NUCLEAR DESTINY

Nuclear Spring
Heritage of Nuclear Power

Click image above for full article and/or text below for a related article.
By Dan Eggen, Wednesday, March 16, 2:00 PM

“Nuclear power advocates are waging an intense lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill this week in an attempt to limit the political fallout from the reactor crisis in Japan, which threatens to undermine already shaky plans for expanded nuclear capacity in the United States.” Washington Post;
Art, Sacred Sky Sacred Earth

Sacred Sky Sacred Earth: Coronado (Sunday March 20, 2011)

Art, dance, and music on Coronado's North Beach as the sun sets and the moon rises.
This Vernal Equinox you are invited to bring family and friends to SACRED SKY SACRED EARTH: CORONADO

This Vernal Equinox you are invited to bring family and friends to
SACRED SKY SACRED EARTH: CORONADO

Dress warmly, wear comfortable shoes, and join us on the sand to enjoy the creativity of
Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA) Actors, Dancers, Musicians, Technicians, Visual and Media Artists
Directed by Betzi Roe.

The evening will feature contemplative art, dance, and music on Coronado’s North Beach
as the sun sets and the moon rises.

Sunday, March 20   North Beach Coronado (Map)
Event opens at 6:00 p.m.   Admission is free thanks to a grant from the NEA
Programme from 6:30 to 7:30   SacredSkySacredEarth.com