A recent e-mail from the Sierra Club irked me, I’m on there mailing list for the newsletter. Apparently the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson called for greater diversity in the environmental movement while speaking to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council two weeks ago. That is all well and good I suppose, we want everyone involved right? But why do we have to bring up the issue of race? I don’t understand why there is such a focus on the color of skin, is it because we have a black president now? I have no issue with the color of Obama’s skin. I like him better than Bush, who, as we all know, was white. It just confuses me, if we want racism to go away, maybe we should stop stoking the fire? I’m not saying we should ignore any problems, if there are racist actions they should be stopped, but there is no need for continuous reminders that there are people with different color skin.

I wonder how people who are not white and recieved this e-mail feel about it? Isn’t it kind of exclusionary?

See the post here: Yep, We’re too white.

The Bubbles at Acadia National Park, Maine

The Bubbles are aptly named, as you can see, because they look like two huge granite bubbles, or if you have a less pure mind, a healthy girl on her back. I guess naming them  after female anatomy would have been poor taste. The shapes were carved by glacial ice moving over the granite thousands of years ago, which also carved most of the landscape on Mount Dessert Island.

Cloudy sunrise on Cadillac Mountain

This photo is the product of miss-adventure, but it was still fun. We wanted to wake up early and go see sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain, but we had put it off the first few mornings. Thursday we woke up at 4 AM, sunrise was at 4:48. When we got up, it was still fairly dark, we could not actually see the sky until we had already driven half way to Cadillac Mountain from our campsite, at which point it started to rain. Since we were already up, we figured we’d keep going and see if the weather cleared. It didn’t really, as you can see in the photo, but I still like it. We never did get to see sunrise, it was rained for the rest of the week.

Granite cliffs near Sand Beach, Acadia National Park

I took this photo while trying to capture the golden light of sunset on the shoreline in the distance, but soon realized this was more interesting. Originally we were headed for Cadillac Mountain, but realized we would not make it before the light was gone.