My new job

I mentioned in an earlier post that I just started a new job.

I didn't mention that my job is one of the coolest jobs of all time.

I am working for the Association for the Preservation of Cape Cod

surveying rare plant communities around the Cape.

What this means is that I get to hike around beautiful areas

looking for interesting plant communities

and when I find them, I photograph them and map them. 

Here are just a few pictures from my first two weeks:

wild grape

bindweed

the beach at Wing Island

beech forest

skunk cabbage

salt marsh

salt spray rose

interdune pool

spartina

more spartina

 

I loved some of the places I went so much

that over the weekend, I retraced my steps with Orin and Casey.

Here they are looking at the baby osprey in its nest.

we walked out to the water at low tide

it took a while... but we made it

which sure made Orin happy.

Hope you had a good one too!