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elainegrey) wrote2012-04-28 06:55 am
elainegrey) wrote2012-04-28 06:55 am
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Mrrgghhugh.
Maybe i do have a sinus infection. I feel well, except for the awful headache. If it were a tension headache it would be gone by now, right?
Visit with my brother brief but pleasant. A meeting i was attending by phone ended early and i was able to see him out the door between his phone meetings.
Midday i got out for a walk with my neighbor's dog and took some phone-photos of plants (list of observations, not yet updated with the names). In the evening i identified many of them at least to the genus. I've decided non-native weedy plants like hawksbeard and radish are fine left at the genus. The note in the online Jepson manual about the radishes is that they hybridize, anyhow, so the identification isn't just a decision between A or B. I've grown somewhat distrustful of the Calflora crowdsourced photos. How many folks take the time to tell the difference between the two radish species? Best i can tell the differentiation is in the hairiness of the stem, the basal leaf shape, and the seed shapes, but it seems that they have overlapping variations.
The book i bought recently, Botany In A Day, helped me identify the families of some of the plants i didn't know. From the family, i can use CalFlora to narrow in on the identification.
I had a half cup of coffee yesterday afternoon when i was craving sweets and then powered on all evening, until we had dinner around 9 pm. This would be why caffeine is in diet pills. Today i'll limit myself to a quarter cup of coffee.
Maybe i do have a sinus infection. I feel well, except for the awful headache. If it were a tension headache it would be gone by now, right?
Visit with my brother brief but pleasant. A meeting i was attending by phone ended early and i was able to see him out the door between his phone meetings.
Midday i got out for a walk with my neighbor's dog and took some phone-photos of plants (list of observations, not yet updated with the names). In the evening i identified many of them at least to the genus. I've decided non-native weedy plants like hawksbeard and radish are fine left at the genus. The note in the online Jepson manual about the radishes is that they hybridize, anyhow, so the identification isn't just a decision between A or B. I've grown somewhat distrustful of the Calflora crowdsourced photos. How many folks take the time to tell the difference between the two radish species? Best i can tell the differentiation is in the hairiness of the stem, the basal leaf shape, and the seed shapes, but it seems that they have overlapping variations.
The book i bought recently, Botany In A Day, helped me identify the families of some of the plants i didn't know. From the family, i can use CalFlora to narrow in on the identification.
I had a half cup of coffee yesterday afternoon when i was craving sweets and then powered on all evening, until we had dinner around 9 pm. This would be why caffeine is in diet pills. Today i'll limit myself to a quarter cup of coffee.