Do the 100 Species Challenge

You can major in biology, and apart from what you glean from a couple courses, have your knowledge of taxonomy limited to items available from the Carolina Biological Supply catalog.

Went to a local nature park to walk on the trails. Hardly anybody was there (church, sleeping in, whatever) and it was a little weird walking through the woods a mile nearly alone.

Anyway, I stopped to browse at the interpretive center afterwards. They have a laminated photographic field guide (in progress) of plants actually in the park that you can check out while you walk. Think I’ll go back and do this.

There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles’ radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.

Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”

The idea is from blogger scsours on Xanga: identify 100 species of flora in your own neighborhood.

http://weblog.xanga.com/scsours/664162392/the-100-species-challenge.html?page=1&jump=1444955745&leftcmt=1#1444955745