When you think of beauty you have a very specific ideal that often comes to mind whether it be of a newborn infant pure and innocent, a bride in white perfection, a flower with petals of velvet glistening from a ray of sunshine or new morning dew, or your leftover scraps that you will recycle and or compost to bring forth a new life cycle!

Terri-Lynn Pellegri has been a photographer for most of her adult life.  She shoots photos of things that make her smile and as she brings life into her viewfinder.  My friend and sister-in-law is not a PollyAnna but prefers to see the glass flowing over, as love and happiness will never empty the vessel.  If needed, she will pour herself into it to keep it beautifully alive.  You must view her collection of Love Compost, now seen at Uncommon Grounds, in Saratoga Springs, NY.  This collection is just the beginning of her legacy for a global society coming together to save ourselves from destroying Mother Earth.  This collection should be traveling from city to city for individuals like you and me to appreciate enough to make some trashy lifestyles we all have.

Most communities have recycling. However, if you don’t recycle or recycle per the rules the separation of those items like plastic, glass, aluminum, and paper will go into the trash piles creating bigger and unusable landfill areas.  However, rinsing out containers, and establishing what is truly recyclable or not is our first commitment, and it is not difficult to do.  Understanding how to compost is another stance we can take, and even for those of us living in a community, condo, apartment or urban area, it is possible to do ‘some’ composting.  If you drink coffee or tea, those ground beans and tea leaves can be added to your plant dirt.  I have seen a remarkable surge in the growth of my plants and I dump the grounds in and around my plants; I let it sit for a couple of days, and then I turn the compost over into the soil.

As I observed the photograph display at Uncommon Grounds, I was amazed and excited to see how a banana peel can look so beautiful, or how a cracked eggshell with the right light shining on it can bring happy tears to your eyes when you witness life, not death and not decay.  Each photo is an act of love, and the compassion of saving the earth resonates loud and clear.  Not only are the pictures a lesson to protect our future, but they are also works of art as presentations in our homes.

I hope to help Love Compost raise the awareness and funds to take this show worldwide.  I welcome musicians and other artists to consider creating a new LOVE MOVEMENT as we compost our trash in more ways than one!