Valarie Atwood
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Valarie Atwood
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Bahái ☮️, Wife 💍, Mother 👬🏻, Nature Girl 🌿, Fitness Enthusiast 🤸🏻‍♀️, Cat Lady 😻😻 #BlueskyBahais
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“The Divine Springtime has come! Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice!”

Art by Joe Paczkowski

#BlueskyBahais #NawRuz
Fun, productive and BEAUTIFUL day! 1st haul of compost. Had a great team helping prepare beds for planting. I can’t help but be excited about how things are going to look with the finished product.☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

#naturegirl #nativeplantproject #planobahaicenter #blessedtomorrow #tmn #BlueskyBahais
Making progress on our Monarch Waystation.🙌🏼Removing landscape fabric made from polypropylene/petroleum, that breaks down into microplastics, pollutes soil, leaches chemicals, including BPA.❌ Consider using cardboard instead.💚🌎

#naturegirl #nativeplantproject #monarchwaystation #BlueskyBahais
Depending on how long you’ve been doing HIIT, 2-3 x a week is sufficient in addition to weight training.
I was a fitness instructor for 7 yrs. teaching Zumba, weight training, HIIT. Then I became a Texas Master Naturalist and it changed the course of my life. Healing the land and inspiring others to do so brings me joy and hope. Now I do my own weights workout at home and then hit the outdoors. 💚🌿🌎
Thanks Carol Clark for talking about Monarch Waystations for TX. 50 attendees @ the Plano Baha’i Center.Thanks Earth Care Team volunteers. The Native Plant Project got awarded $600 grant for a Monarch Waystation!🙌🏼 #naturegirl #earthcareconnect #nativeplantproject #BringBackTheMonarchs #BlueskyBahais
That’s a great idea. Very rejuvenating. I am focusing on what is in my power to make a difference and inspiring others to join in the work. It keeps me sane. 🌎💚
I ❤️ this time of year, celebrating w/ friends and family.🙌🏼

The days of Ayyam-i-Ha consist of extra days on the Baha’i calendar, February 24 - March 1 inclusive, and are days of hospitality, charity, gift-giving and preparation for the 19- day Fast.☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

#HappyAyyamiha #bahaifaith #BlueskyBahais
How do YOU keep hope and where do you get it from?☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

#hope #bahaiwritings #hopeful #trust #BlueskyBahais
Faith/climate connection talk with a group of guests at the Plano Bahai Center.

“Every age hath its own problem...Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and centre your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.”
Bahá’u’lláh

#naturegirl #FaithandClimate #BlueskyBahais
What is the monetary value per one hour of volunteer work for a Texas Master Naturalist?🤔

#naturegirl #texasmasternaturalist #volunteersmakeadifference #volunteers #BlueskyBahais
Hope the Bluebirds survive the Arctic Blast coming to N. TX.🙏

“The fowls of the air…partake of Thy care and loving kindness. Deprive not this feeble one of Thy wondrous grace and vouchsafe by Thy might unto this helpless soul Thy bounty.” ~'Abdu’l-Bahá
#naturegirl #BlueskyBahais #Bluebirds #climate
Muddy mess today, but we accomplished a lot! Removed dead & invasive shrubs. I cannot tell you how satisfying it is to get rid of invasives and make room for future native plants.☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

#naturegirl #nativeplantproject #planobahaicenter #texasmasternaturalist #BlueskyBahais
Leave the leaves. Protect biodiversity.💚 “Consider the world of created beings, how varied and diverse they are in species, yet with one sole origin…So it is with humanity…Let us look…at the beauty in diversity…and learn a lesson from the vegetable creation.”
Baha’i Faith #naturegirl #BlueskyBahais
I’m confused, not only about the meme, but I thought blue sky was first released in 2023. Can someone explain?
My TX Master Naturalist neighbor and I explored a bit of forest in our neighborhood. We started identifying trees, shrubs, grasses. Planning to walk neighbors thru there for Earth Day to clean up & learn about its benefits.☀️🤸🏻‍♀️ #naturegirl #inaturalist #texasmasternaturalist #earthday #BlueskyBahais
WORK IS WORSHIP☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

"All effort and exertion put forth by man from the fullness of his heart is worship, if it is prompted by the highest motives and the will to do service to humanity." -Abdu'l-Bahá

#earthcareconnect #earthcareteam #serviceisworship #workisworship #BlueskyBahais
Productive Native Plant Project workday at the Plano Bahai Center!🌿 Thanks Earth Care Team Members for your dedication & TX Master Naturalists for sharing your time and knowledge.💯 Keep up the great work!☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

#naturegirl #EarthCareTeam #nativeplants #planobahaicenter #earthcareconnect #BlueskyBahais
Hello! ☀️🤸🏻‍♀️
Excited to be managing this service project.☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

Native plants…
🌿 support biodiversity
🌿 provide food & habitat
🌿 regulate ecosystems
🌿 aid carbon capture
🌿 help maintain balance
🌿 support wildlife
🌿 reduce erosion & flooding

#naturegirl #earthcareconnect #nativeplants #BlueskyBahais #EarthCareTeam
Are you familiar with the iNaturalist app yet? Check it out! Identify plants and contribute to science.
Trying to protect, preserve and restore by planting native.🌿

“O God! Be Thou their supporter and their helper, and in the wilderness, the mountain, the valley, the forests, the prairies and the seas, be Thou their confidant…” - Baha'u'llah

#naturegirl #blacklandprairie #plantnative #BlueskyBahais
Allah’u’abha!🙏💚