This morning I woke up stiff and miserable in a Quality Inn on the WV-VA border. Tried showering the muscle tension out only to bash my head off the handicap pull bar in the shower. This left a nice stripe of blue bruising across my forehead, lol, but all was not lost.
It was a beautiful day, as illustrated by this beautiful, all natural waterfall. The water was so blue. For whatever reason, the plates this time caught a lot more precipitate than usual, so we wound up having to rig something up in the tackle box to protect the samples. It was fun to be useful and also to just see where he's been working on his reasearch for the past two and a half years.
We visited all his sample sites. He spent a lot of time wading through streams to pull up his plates and snipping copper wire. I spent a lot of time taking photos so he would have them for his thesis presentation, and also just because there was a lot of beautiful stuff to see. If image uploading wasn't such a slow, painful process, I'd show more here. I don't entirely understand his research, something about carbon secuestration and making sure we all don't get asfixiated... but it was neat to be part of it for the day. Hey, I got to see a gorgeous waterfall, pet a black snake, try on hip waders for the first time, and finally go see what John's up to when he "goes down south."
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