Rachel

What can I say? I am a horticulturalist. Yeah, I know, what does that mean? It means I work with plants: trees, shrubs, flowers, everything. This means knowing how to identify plants, knowing what each one needs and where it needs to be to survive, how to plant them right, how to take care of them in the landscape as they grow, what plants look best together. Overall, I guess you could say that I work with Nature. She's not always forgiving, but if you take the time to learn, she can be beautiful. Ooh, that was cheesy.The whole horticulturalist thing doesn't define me or anything, it's just the only thing I could think of. generally, people are pretty hard to define. and that's a good thing.Ok, so besides that, what else can I say? I am always reading something, usually something written by dead white males, not because of a preference for dead white males over others, it just kind of ends up that way. But I will read nearly anything if I think it will introduce me to something I don't know about. unless it's sick and twisted. then no way. just the things I should know about and don't know about.One day, I want to live on a farm and see how much I can produce on my own, not just one thing, but a little bit of everything. I don't want to say I want to practice being self-sustainable, because that phrase got totally overused in my UW classes, it has bad memories for me. But pretty much like that, I guess you could say.I live for summer and being outside. Gardening, barbeques, Golden Gardens when you can see the Olympics, boating, hiking, anything that involves the outdoors. I have an annoying habit when I walk of stopping constantly and looking at the plants. At least, I have a bad feeling it's annoying.