Botany I

[mythmaker999]

I had my first class yesterday evening, and while it looks to be a fairly challenging one, it also looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. It's Botany level I, and will consist mostly of lectures and contour drawings of plants. Fortunately my Bunny has been giving me quite the refresher on contour drawings this summer

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[mikepictor]

“clorophyll isn't green; it absorbs red and blue light and reflects green light, hence it only appears green”

That's the definition of green….reflecting green light. Our carpet is green, because it reflects green light.

I am not sure I understand.

[mythmaker999]

Then maybe I didn't. The words I use above are the exact words my teacher used. Hmm...

[thesheryl]

It's the old philosophical dilemma: What a thing seems to be to the individual who observes it and what the thing is in itself. By definition, colour that human beings see is the light that an object reflects while the colour that an object actually is in itself is the light it absorbs which humans cannot see.

[mythmaker999]

Thanks - that makes sense. :-)

[mythmaker999]

Plant geeks are the coolest, y'know. :-)

[finalcut999]

If you run across any books that might be the botany one I keep talking about let me know.

[thesheryl]

I always thought that pitcher plants were way cool! :) Glad you like your class! What do you usually do on Yule?

[mythmaker999]

Me too - and that was before I knew they could eat rats!

Thank you - it's a relief since it would have sucked if it had turned out to be a big drag.

What I do on Yule usually depends on other people's plans. What I'd like to do on Yule is have a big meal, a fire (even if it's just blazing pudding), trade small, hearfelt (ideally homemade or secondhand/antique) gifts with close friends and family, and then stay up until the darkest hour when we make as much noise as is humanly possible. The whole point of midwinter celebrations originally were to shout at the darkness - to announce through sympathetic magic that the darkness and cold wouldn't get us, and we'd be fine until spring. That's what my Yule would do.

[foxyfiles]

Wow, I love finding like-minded people. squeee!

[dabunz]

Isn't she a keeper? I love to here you both squee!

[kmfda]

Cool! Glad you are enjoying it :)