Romantic Long Walks at the Beach...

Mama gnome muses, "What can be more romantic than walking at the beach, the waves lapping at her gnome feet and the ocean breeze fanning Mama gnome's face?"

How about walking with a giant trash bag while Mama gnome participates in "what may be the largest volunteer day in the planet."

Yes, very romantic indeed.

Coastal Cleanup Day is coming up on September 19,2009.

In Southern California, it is coordinated by
Heal the Bay and the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.

Coastal Cleanup Day is an international event. Ocean Conservancy reports 60 countries have participated last year.

Please check with your local government where you can participate.

Please visit Heal the Bay or Ocean Conservancy for clean up sites, their rules for what to pick up and what to leave alone as well as how to safely pick up trash especially if your children will be going with you.

Here is an example of love gone awry.


video from: AnimalPlanetTV


Reusable bags are more romantic and cooler than those thin, plastic bags that end up in the oceans or in landfills or in our streets. And in that case, they all end up in the ocean anyway.

Mama gnome will never forget the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or as Mama gnome calls it on the blog The Great Pacific Garbage Monster, a self-made monstrous island of humankind's trash including tons of plastic bags, out in the Pacific Ocean.

That Monster breaks Mama gnome's heart, not to mention kill countless marine animals and seabirds.

Please help keep our oceans clean.

Be romantic all the time and stay green.

(c) 2009 Jenaelha Friendly Gnome's Blog