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Magnolia's

So pretty and such a sweet & spicey smell.....magnolia's...I love them.

Makes me think of spring and my dog :-)

(Hmm...be pretty cool to have a cat named that too lol)

Quilting instead of writing on my thesis...yeah sounds great except that the paper doesn't write itself...okay I know I know...get to work missy<-!

Quaternary Climate ..what?

So I've decided that since I'm learning about these geography concepts that probably the best way for me to remember them would be to write about them...share with others...besides we both learn that way ;-).

Quarternary Climate

1. The duration lasted about 2 million years


2. Nature of the climate - repeated alternations of warm & cold climate


3. Glaciations - the concept of past glaciations was initially developed by the Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz; glacial deposits were found in areas that are too warm to support glaciers today; four major glaciations occurred during the Quarternary - glacial ice cover extent - which included all of Scandinavia, most of the British Isles, Alps, almost all of Canada, and a portion of the Great Lakes region and the New England area

Empowerment

I came across this article online through Yoga Journal that was really good and I was talking with my girlfriend Audrey after work on the way home and before class about it. Ironically our conversation ended up being about a lot of the topic items in that article and she had never even seen it.

We were on the topic of empowerment. It's amazing what kinds of things you end up working on when you are trying to better yourself. How many of you have stopped to realize how often you 'explain yourself' for whatever reason for whatever you are doing/going/etc.? Yeah a lot of us do it. Technically you don't owe anyone an explanation for anything. Society though thinks otherwise though as we often need to provide explanations for things we do at our jobs or for education or even for safety reasons to people we care about. There's a fine line though between that and then going beyond that..

I've gotten used to explaining and am just now realizing that I don't need to. That it's okay to be quiet and have healthy down time. That being still and listening and working on me is a good thing. If I want to share important things like my dreams or goals or funny stuff ..whatever it is...I will with the people I love (especially if asked).

It was very empowering though to me today though to say outloud that I don't have to explain "why" and not just think it. Understanding your fears and overcoming them instead of letting them keep you from growing is a good thing;-).

Pictures Are Worth A Thousand Words

Okay I don't know about a thousand but they definitely can make for some great memories and often times more than not are more than you can sum up in just a few words. Seems like lately I've been thinking about all my travels that I've done in the past back and wondering if I'll be able to do any this summer. Places I'd like to see this summer ? Well I'll save that for another post :-).

This picture reminds me of the times I've traveled through the midwest in the evenings either coming from WA or going to WA while on term breaks when I used to live in MS. There's just something so peaceful and beautiful about such wide open spaces like the one in this picture that make you feel so alive and carefree.

Biomes..Do you know what they are?

This is what I've been focusing on all week with biogeog..the world biomes.

What are they?

Biomes are groups of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms.

Where are they?

Worldwide :-)

What lives there? What's the geographic distribution of Tropical Rainforest and Desertbiomes. Discuss the factors that limit the distribution of Tropical Rainforests.

I live in a Chaparral/Scrub biome but used to live in a Tundra/Semidesert. Pretty interesting really.