Our guest blogger for Earth Day is Frank Walsh, a frequent park visitor and supporter whose love for nature comes through in his words.

Celebrating Earth Day this month urges us to stop, look and appreciate earth.

From space earth appears abstract: mostly blue water, white clouds swirling and brown mountains and green forests.

On earth, we discover blossoms of blue and azure, leaves of marine green and turquoise each with its own unique shape and size. Seasons give us rain, snow provides us lakes, creeks, rivers and oceans.

And yes, the sun, our sun sits patiently as we rotate around it giving us day and night. The sun, the mighty sun, warms the earth stimulating life on earth.

Where can we experience such a wonder on earth? Pease Park, a narrow strip of earth in the center of Austin helps runners, joggers, walkers and dogs feel the earth while providing a theater of trees, flowers and the water in Shoal Creek.

And the individuals we meet become our Pease Park friends who sometimes know our names and the names of our dogs.

And where can we see bright new tree blossoms?

And where to see two plants sharing the earth?

And where to see fresh, light green leaves cradle new growth?

And there’s a catch! As earth gives to us, each of us has an opportunity to give back. Volunteers help keep Pease Park clean and beautiful, we must also join other like-minded individuals in our city, state, nation and the world to give back to our earth.

Earth Day extends beyond just one day, for each of us Earth Day is every day.