contentment

I am very easily entertained... I really, truly find joy in the simple things. That's not to say I don't ever get bored--I do! But most of the time I can find something to do or I am content to just be... especially when in good company.

One of my favorite little joys is watching the weather. Not the monotonous, boring gray sheet of clouds that we have nine months of the year in the Pacific Northwest--but the dynamic weather systems moving across the horizon.

waterlogged

I'm sorry. I'm obsessed.

Water in Water

A couple of weeks ago I went to a workshop by USGS that dealt with detecting ground water interactions with surface water (and I got to stay in that awesome hotel, Hotel Murano).

It was really cool... and pretty nerdy. I learned a TON but came away realizing that there is so much more to learn. The presenters frequently mentioned that they had taken/given week-long courses on just one of the many topics in the workshop. Unfortunately we didn't have weeks to spend learning about everything--just two days!

We spent the mornings in the "classroom" and the afternoons were spent in the field to actually try some of the methods that they described.

Like using seepage meters...