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[elainegrey]

Hello world. I'm journaling first because Christine's right. The practice of these "morning pages" really does help my mind sort itself out for the day.

My sense of being "out of sorts" continues, although a nagging sense suggests that perhaps this is normal. I realized i hadn't written my companions on Sunday's trip:

Thanks for finding out "Wye" the train trestle was interesting L---. I tried to find why the railroad and highway were on opposite sides of the river, but no notes about that -- despite a rather detailed history of CA 70 on wikipedia.

I spent all Monday identifying plants (loving every minute of it, too).

I've 17 photos up at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elainegreycats/tags/butterflyvalley/ and first part of notes (while we were in butterfly valley) at https://www.evernote.com/shard/s6/sh/e85476fc-f6ad-4520-ae40-cb9893a2590a/51ed7a3e88f34b4dc2e3b13873e5a105

The woodland flower *is* star flower: "Trientalis is a small genus of flowering plants containing three species known as starflowers or wintergreens. These plants have the unusual trait of sometimes bearing flower parts in sevens. "

The white flower that Diana and i said wasn't a ceanothus, is a ceanothus: Rhamnaceae: Ceanothus integerrimus (deer brush).

The red larkspur was hard to place in a species: two red larkspur are in Plumas county. In the end i'm certain it is canyon larkspur. Ranunculaceae: Delphinium nudicaule

Instead of solitary analysis at work though, i've spent the pst two days in calls and sorting out "fires." Bleh. I'll be in the office today.

I do like fieldwork and analysis. I just told Christine, who switched to the history department on Tuesday, that i would be delighted to do fieldwork and analysis for her. The photo trip on Sunday reminded me of research experiments in grad school in that just a few hours of observations can lead to weeks of analysis and research.

Thus continues my analysis of what i don't like about my day job. Not sure when i will act on changing it, though.