Atriplex hymenelytra
Atriplex hymenelytra
common name: desert holly
Family: Chenopodiaceae (goosefoot family)
Went out into the BLM land in San Bernadino county, sort of in the Mojave desert area
if you google a picture of this plant you will see that it’s white, and when it’s recently had water is turns this really pretty greyish purple.
we found several of these plants in an interesting canyon that had little bright spots of light because of the recent so-cal thunderstorms.
The desert is an interesting place, it attracts interesting people
my favorite thing about it is that each individual organism capable of existing there is so extremely adapted to such a harsh environment.
and there is something so serenely beautiful about watching a desert sunset.
It’s too bad I’m only in the south for the most unbearable time to be in the desert, in the fall there is a whole new array of life that emerges.
Look at me, not complaining about my life, about the state of my mind, instead I am talking about my passion.
It’s been so great working with people that know the exact fight I am waging; a young female ‘scientist’ (I use that word very loosely, but someone objectively called me one the other day..so..I feel like it’s okay in this context), not exactly sure where my strengths and weaknesses lie, not a clue about where I want to be in five years.
The only thing that any of us know is that we want to fight the good fight.
That’s what all of this is about, restoration, conservation, increasing our own knowledge of how things work and hopefully sharing it with the public.
I have so much renewed energy towards education, but I have no idea if that will be sucked out of me once I get back to the land of stoners.
Oh, and about david.
after the last time we had sex, I just started crying
this usually does not happen to me
it was this rushing overflow of emotion
it was how much I cared for him
my guilt about the horrible thing
and the fact that I’m leaving in two weeks
he was concerned but not scared that I was crying almost immediately after his climax
and we tried to have the conversation about what we’re going to do when I have to go back
but the answer on both sides was the same
"I want to be with you, but….650 miles is very far away"
I think both of us know this whole thing is fucked, simply because of timing and my eminent location.
if there was some how, some way that we could end up in the same place, within the next year….
but we are both so young, deciding who we will be, I don’t know if we’ll even want to be together in another year.
He’ll be trying to get a job working as a computer programmer next summer, and I’ll be furiously taking summer school and hopefully an internship that pays $$$, or a part time job.
It’s hard.
but I completely want to try the long distance thing.
because I’m a romantic.
and I love him.
XOXO
phoebe