Comment: Rambling about, looking for wildflowers

Thanks Michelle for your kind comments. Time seems to always be the enemy, and I think you may have fallen for it here - or else missed a paragraph. I most certainly do NOT advocate collecting plant material, and say (about 2/3 of the way down the blog):

"But these days there are laws regulating who can collect plants, and where it can be done, with stiff penalties for picking plant material without a permit. So a better approach is to collect only photographs."

My point in talking about collecting actual plant specimens was to show how the observation of plants has been done in the past, and that finding plants/wildflowers is part of a long tradition.

I liked your analogy to scuba diving - pretty much the same experience of many hopeful wildflower watchers. Its tempting to rush about trying to see everything - the frequent irony is that the more we rush the less we see.

Cheers,

Val.