port orford cedars and entoptic phenomena...

things are going really well here... first day of training and it was awesome! i have so much to learn and so many things to read, but i really feel like this is exactly where i am meant to be and it feels so good. got to meet the chief scientist here and he is AMAZING, he has many books published on the science of the area and is doing such cool research. he seriously is spellbinding to listen to talk about this place... i swear he knows so much. i feel so lucky to be around such people. the weather is nice too... clear blue sky and cold mornings and nights with mild days. at night we have been hiking the trails a bit. last night we went on a 3 mile loop on the big tree trail, named for the largest girth douglas fir in oregon. its like a sequoia! so cool and its on monument property! tonight after dinner we climbed to a ridge and sat and watched the sunset... brilliant colors and ridges after ridges of blue mountains in the distance. i really need to take pics and post them, but i probably wont be able to post them till i get into town which most likely wont be till this weekend. i am on the shared computers now. so anyways... i need to think of a theme for my tours that i will give... its kind of like a research project... we each have to develop our own areas we want to focus on and then develop them using these interpretive models.... i love being in an academic setting. good stuff. so anyways.... i am going to bed now... talk to you all later...