I wrote this a few weeks ago:

It is pretty windy out. I am sitting in Woodlawn Cemetery, enjoying my lunch hour. I love my job. I know I've said it a thousand times, but it's true. Sometimes working is better than not. I walk through the woods all day analyzing and making observations. The project I am working on right now is really cool because I get to look at what was in a given plant community twenty years ago and what is there now. I can also sometimes visualize how the plave looked when it was designed. I can see what species move in, which ones thrive, and which ones dissapear. Hopefully at some point I can learn what work has been done in an area and how that has affected the community.

I realize that botany and forestry is not for everyone and yes I am a science/ nature geek. But I don't care. I love it.