Medicinal Botanical Wonders.*

so now that i'm preparing myself for graduate school for botany and plant biology, i am trying to teach myself chemistry. yes, this is as hard as it sounds, but i keep getting distracted with the pretty pictures, as usual. it's pretty cool to think that botanists were illustrating these well over 100 years ago, but the plants are still exactly the same. if anyone knows the original botanical illustrator, please comment, since as of the moment i can't hunt his name down anywhere. thx.*

Summer Travels: Red Rocks, Navajo Lands, & Petrified Forests.*

for the past few months, all i can think of is being in desert landscape. red rocks, red earth, petrified forests, rivers, native land, cacti, silver, navajo prints, beads, and lots&lots of sky. just over a month left until i can make this trek. inspiration&desired lands....*