a tour of our rich and varied plant life

Saturday is normally a weekend, but this Saturday we were busy the whole day. From early hours to the late afternoon we travelled all around with a plant expert named Bill to learn all about the area’s diverse plant life. I’m not sure how I can make this part sound more interesting, because we learned about plants. I like plants myself, but I’m no botanist. By the end of the tour I felt more stupid than I did at the beginning, just because all the various facts and information about plant life which we went over reminds me of how much there is I don’t remember from college biology courses. You can go through your head wether leaves have opposite or alternate attachement, wether leaf veination is pinnate or palmate, or wether they are simple or complex, smooth or notched, but when it all comes down to it everything you're looking at still looks like a big green plant. Everyone of us feels a bit daunted by these green, slow-moving beasts that eat sunlight and drop their crap all over the place until it covers the whole ground. Ask us what sort of frog or bird and we'll give you its name and number, but plants are plants. But I guess as long as we can point at something green and say a few latin words we’ll at least look like great biologists. That late afternoon we did the wolf howl. More on that later.