Helping Out at Earth Day

Today Latter-day Saints contributed service in dozens of cities across California.

Our local congregation lent "Mormon Helping Hands" at Pasadena's annual Earth Day festival. Yellow-vested volunteers handed out festival fliers, assisted at booths, and (in my case) helped sift through trash to retrieve the compostable cups everyone kept tossing because they thought they were plastic. No one said service was glamorous. :)

In addition to helping out, we got to check out some of the interesting displays, like . . .

the Freedom Garden booth (i.e. freedom from pesticides or from dependence on someone else to produce your food), . . .

. . . the electric bike and motorcycle vendor, . . .

. . . and this pre-Columbian earth dance, in honor of Earth Day.

Daniel found the whole experience captivating, as usual.