Still making some progress, and no clinic or labs until tomorrow. Eva and I took a walk yesterday afternoon around the main Stanford campus. I remember years ago Tim showing me around his alma mater. He was very definite in choosing Stanford for medical school after getting a feel for December in California, compared with December at Case Western in Cleveland.

As we wandered around some of the nearby meadows, I was tempted to stray off the paved path to get a closer look at the wildflowers. However, no gardening or unpaved paths for the next half year at least. For now, I have to appreciate flowers and other plants from afar and use my phone camera to see the details.

While I’ve been recuperating, I’ve been working on reorganizing the 60,000 native plant photos Tim and I have amassed in our plant database. I’m very rusty as far as remembering the botanical names of many plants, but oddly I often remember the exact location I took the photo. So far, I’ve made some progress working on all 600+ worldwide plant families alphabetically. I’m now starting on plant families beginning with E…. In case you’re wondering, the largest plant family in the world is Asteraceae (e.g., daisies) which took me several days to work through. The second largest family is Orchidaceae (which we don’t have as many examples in our northern hemisphere). But, the third largest plant family is Fabiaceae (e.g., legumes), and we have plenty of photos for me to go through.

Once again, thanks to all of you for your love and support.

Memorial Church (MemChu, as Tim and his fellow medical students called it). Wildflower meadows nearby including Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila menziesii)