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One of my major concerns is that the lights are blazing all night long in Houston, where I live, and it seems to be true wherever I go.  One of my fondest childhood memories is of sitting on the front porch stairs with my father, looking at the magnificent vault of stars and watching the fireflies in our yard, which twinkled like little stars on the earth. 

These days, we can never see the stars and hence, we have no sense of ourselves in relation to the cosmos.  Fireflies do not exist in metropolitan areas any longer, because they need darkness in which to find each others' lights for mating.  Many plants will not bloom unless it is dark, for they are strictly night-blooming creatures.  This was evolved because flowers lose a lot of water if open in the daytime, and some cannot survive if they lose that much water, so they bloom at night when it is not so hot out.  Some of these are simply magnificent, like the cereus plant.

In an attempt to save energy, a movement that will also benefit the plants and animals that need freedom from unending artificial light, including ourselves, has begun in Australia. It started in Sidney last year. It is this:  turning off all the lights in major cities around the globe for one hour.  The amount of energy saved when this was done last year (for just one hour - on one day) in Sidney, Australia, was the equivalent of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year.  If you want to learn more, go here: http://www.earthhour.org/

I signed up, and I hope you will too.  I can think of nothing I would more love to see in Houston, than lights off for just one hour!  Who among you will take up this guantlet for his/her city?

Starlight blessings,

Lois

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