Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
3/24: better book
When we lived in upstate NY we loved using the Peterson field guide to identify wildflowers, but it's not as comprehensive a resource for Arkansas, so we've been using a book on Arkansas wildflowers specifically since we moved here. The downside of the book is that it's organized by scientific family rather than by color--and if I knew enough to know the scientific families of wildflowers, I probably wouldn't need a guide book. I usually have to page through the whole book when I want to find something, which can be a little frustrating. Today in the store I saw a new Arkansas wildflower book which is organized by color, and we purchased it right away--hurray!
Oh, I know exactly what you mean! For me it's local wildflowers and also local birds and local trees - I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to naming things. Just today, in fact, I was googling the birds at my window feeder. I knew two of them but not the third. I mean, it was probably a sparrow or something that EVERYONE knows, but I really wasn't sure. I'm always looking for the perfect book - and when I take my daughter on camping trips I look for the guides that are specifically about that county - or even that park - so as to limit the options and bring it to my lowly level!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it's not just me! I am really pleased about this new book--I feel like it'll work with me, while the other one felt like it was working against me (or I was working against it).
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