In junior high school, I first used a camera, a Kodak Brownie 127, to snap photos of pollution and waste in my home town, Danbury, Connecticut.

Nature and the environment have been near and dear to me, after all, we depend on both and at times, mankind wages war on both.

In my hometown is the Still River. Once so polluted, it had water that was blackish, traces of blue and purple water and slime, done in by decades of using the river as a dumping place for industrial output.

After many decades of clean up, it is now a river where people can fish once more and enjoy the river.

Much is made about conservative or this or that.

Looking up the word, conservation, I found, the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation …

The agency has a Facebook page

The agency also has volunteers that adopt a preserve.

The staff has great images of two preserves I frequent, Lou Campbell and Irwin Prairie in the Toledo area on the Fan Page, the lupines are in bloom at the Lou Campbell Preserve.

Irwin Prairie has no active volunteers who are photographers as well.

I was asked, if I would to apply, heck ya.

More soon.

I spend as much time out in the wood and around water and this is simply, confounding.

Rain pollutes our lakes. Something is wrong with this, isn’t there. Rain is a sustaining part of life and world, and here, because of excessive run off, we are tasked with cleaning up precious resources, our waterways.

“Another wetter-than-average Ohio spring has experts worried that severe toxic-algae problems will return to Lake Erie this summer.

Storms that drenched northwestern Ohio have so far this year nearly doubled the average amount of phosphorus that washes off farm fields each spring and flows down the Maumee River to Lake Erie. Phosphorus, a key ingredient in fertilizers, helps blue-green algae grow."

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The joint is loaded with artists!

Who isn’t?

And the yak, yak is about art on an art site.

Anything else of any interest in peoples lives?

Politics and religion are minefields, because we have the answers for everyone.

Oh, look, a new 8 × 10 of something, why sure.

There’s more to life on an art site than art, isn’t there?

We nearly wiped out the bald eagle. We have made some other animal and insects go extinct and now it’s the bees.

We are killing them off with our need for picture perfect lawns and gardens and our quest to control pests with toxic chemistry

The toxic chemistry pollutes the land, water and air, that we rely on.

We spiders in our house. Many Little ones’ are emerging from the eggs and people say, a spider! Kill it!

Why?

We coexist in the house just fine, They take care of the other insects and we don’t need toxic chem to kill or repel.

Same thing with snakes. We have them living in our yard, they help to control other pests.

Wait for it, there will be a call to clean up as we come to realize we need nature and not make it bend to our selfish needs, but, not until we nearly…

“Matika Wilbur: Indian Enough” will feature a free talk by the artist at 7 p.m. May 16. “Indian Enough” is the first in a series of exhibitions River House Arts is hosting in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the battles that occurred in our region during the War of 1812, including the First Siege of Fort Meigs in May 1813. These military events were critical not only to the U.S. victory over England and its Native American allies, but to the change in U.S. policy toward indigenous peoples of North America, and the end of any promise for an independent, sovereign nation of Native Americans.”

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An acquaintance in an Eastern European country, was recently threatened with harm, from his comments made on social networking about minority cultures in his homeland.

No physical harm has come, but, the police were called and an investigation is underway.

We don’t who made read what we write and we don’t know what state of mind others may be, in, or how they may react to what we write.

Campaign, but, be aware we are more connected and social networking is a wide open public forum.

Be safe, first.

Many people use IE as Windows if the operating system and a minor annoyance of IE or any browser is the cache.

Microsoft has made available information and settings that can be adjusted.

Remembering that the Cache allows the rendering of pages to be faster, but, the browser may not look at the page and use the cached version, which will cause page weirdness.

To View or Modify the Cache Settings

The answer is, yes, but it takes planning, research and measurement of results to gain more fans and customers.

Think photos, not galleries.Galleries don’t drive the type of engagement that individual photos do.

Can be also too much when the silence of the wood calls.

In the meantime there is