Just some nice things

It's been a pretty hectic few weeks and blogging has fallen between the couch cushions for a little bit but I'm back again to try to just practice getting thoughts out, no matter how random they may be. I thought I'd do a little bit of a recap, partly because my memory has been struggling a bit so writing things down always helps. Plus I'm trying to be gentle with myself so writing about fun events rather than thought-provoking ones sounds a lot more doable right now and sharing some pictures also sounds like fun. 

This Sunday my partner, our friend and I drove down to the Santa Barbra Botanic Gardens. The Botanic Gardens have 11 different areas that display all native Californian plants with cool art, lovely benches, secret trails and a creek you can cross.   My partner and I discovered them a few years ago when we were looking for something to do for our birthdays and once we discovered they have a mini redwood grove with a creek? Well, that's paradise for us. We recently became members so we can visit whenever we want and we took our friend down for a fun day trip. The river was much lower and had this wild carpet of dried algae all along that was spooky.A lot of the flowers are still in bloom and buzzing with honeybees. We also saw so many little lizards sunbathing as well as turtles sunbathing and living their best life.
 

I've also been working hard at the Geology Lab. I got hired as a lab assistant to help inventory and organize the geology lab over the summer and into the fall semester. It's been so satisfying, like doing a puzzle except with more dust. I've sorted ingenuous, metamorphic, sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, and minerals. I've made quite a few mystery boxes to go over with the professor or other folks in the lab, but identifying rocks is one of the harder things to do in geology, funny enough! I'll be starting to clean out and inventory some of the back closets next and I'm so curious to see what's in the cabinets in the back!
 
That's been some of the highlights from the past few weeks from me! I'm trying to set up some more good habits to help with keeping a clear head and calm vibe so we'll see how those help. 

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  1. serina :)July 9, 2023 at 10:51 PM

    I love this post! It felt like a much needed pallet cleanser to help unwind from the busyness of life. I love the pictures and now want to take a trip to SB!

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