Hug a Tree

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Conditions: Showers with gradual clearing across the region.

Happy Earth Day, friends. It seems that, with each passing year, there are more ways to celebrate this all-important event. Today was certainly proof positive of that trend.

Our local legends, the Red Sox, commemorated the date with special pro-recycling uniforms:

If a complete wardrobe change is not quite your cup of tea, you can also head to Sunnyvale, California, which marked the occasion with a special thermometer exchage: for every mercury thermometer (oral or other oriface) brought in to the town office today, Sunnyvale citizens received a brand new, heavy-metal-free digital one in its place.

Looking for something a little less . . . pragmatic? Then you could always try one of Hallmark's brand new Earth Day e-cards:

As for us here at caninaturalist headquarters, we opted for something a little more traditional:

a walk in the woods.

On this grandest of days out, we humans were particularly thrilled by the appearance of wildflowers slowly taking over the monochromatic landscape:

Miss Ari, on the other hand, was for more taken by the discovery of fox scat:

And, true to Rule #1 of canine naturalists worldwide, she celebrated this discovery in rich form.

(namely, by rolling in it).

(and everything else in the vicinity)

Because, really, why hug a tree when you can wear one? Especially, I guess, on Earth Day.