Indian Rock

Today, we visited Indian Rock, in Vista, Ca. I didn't end up having my camera with me, so rather than let that deter me from learning and experiencing... I took 3 pages of notes, scrambling rapidly to keep up with our enthusiastic speakers. What they had to say was very in depth and amazing that there is so much to know about 1 single subject. i.e. California native plants. If you were to walk up to a random person and ask them what their knowledge of such things is, it would be similar to if you asked someone if they knew how "super-glue" was made (what's in it).Anyway, I was absolutely amazed at the depth of knowledge of these people, particularly Greg Rubin. 1 crazy fact I'd like to mention after looking back over my notes, is that in every square foot of ground, there lies 10,000 dormant weed seeds... Yikes, no wonder we're inundated with weed cover. Anyway, what I did end up doing is taking some pressings. Something I've done much in the past with flowers and such, but decided to do some with plants that could afford a piece to be plucked, or in the case of the Lupen, a plant that had been marred by the trafficking of feet. I really enjoyed using the scanner as a HUGE camera to zoom in and really get an image of the textures within the plants, not just the plants.