Standing in the wind

Last post... I have a long laundry list of things to accomplish today. I actually took yesterday completely off and didn't even let myself feel the least bit guilty about it. I went for a hike, got some good exercise in and spent some time hanging out with various folks and didn't even enter the school. Here is a nice little patch of snow with seed strctures poking out of it. I was telling a good chunk of my students about fireweed last week. Its odd... I guess it would be a bit like dandilions back home... it totally dominates the landscape here, yet when I put up a picture of it - most kids did know much about it. Which is about what I know about dandilions - or at least that I would know about dandilions if I was a normal person and not a hobby naturalist and an ex-camp nature coordinator.