Wearing Waders

So I got to wear my new muck boots today as our last vegetation site is a puddle after heavy rains. I like this site because it was covered in moss, all types of ferns, grasses (which is unique to this site), and a huge blueberry bush that had a few ripe berries on it. Yum! If I hadn't of dosed myself in bugspray to keep the ticks away, I would have eaten those berries.

The sensitive fern was beautiful with raindrops beaded up on the fronds (see picture).

We finished our surveying in the field today, which means we will be inside on computers for much of the time remaining - yuck, I'd rather be outside. But, alas, the data must be analyzed so we can see if there are any differences or similarities between our sites. So far it has been quite hard to make charts with the data. I'm being introduced to Macs and Excel 2008 all at the same time and I feel like I know nothing again. Why do they have to change systems when everybody already knows how to use the old one! I was very tired at the end of the day. It took all my energy to figure out the computers.