First day of Fall :-)

Saturday morning I woke up early and found pictures of plants online for THREE HOURS. I make flash cards of the plants that are on my recognition lists each week.

Then I went to a little family gathering for my grandmother’s 80th birthday.







Kelsey is starting to talk more. Last week I taught her how to say Obama. She likes to say “ducky, doggie, puppy…” and then if you throw a new word in at the end she’ll say it.

Hmmmm

Today’s flora lab was better and more interesting. There were a lot of pretty flowers to look at but the plants are never as interesting as my classmates. Last week someone collected a batch of pokeberries and went home and painted a picture of pokeberries with the ink from the berries.

See... pretty.

A leaf is a leaf is a leaf

I have a lab in which we hike for three hours through the woods looking at leaves. Then we spend the next week memorizing the plants for a quiz. Then we do it all over again.



I took some pictures of some of the plants with my iPhone. It’s really hard memorizing the leave structures and the venation. We have approximately 35 plants on each quiz. The TAs go through the woods and pick the plants for our quiz, then we walk around and write the Latin name of the plant, family, and the common name. It’s difficult because you start to memorize the picture, and then when you see the plant on the quiz you’re like “okay, what the hell is this……” But photos like this will help..

Kal Penn

How did I miss this? I love that little Indian dude and I would have been so excited to hear about his love for Obama. I wasn't doing anything better on Sunday, either.