The Loves of My Life

It's definitely time to do some updating on here. Two significant events have happened in the past month.

1) I got engaged.
2) I bought a mountain bike.

Meet the loves of my life:

Hiking Y mountain

Glamour Shots

I thought I would give my hand a try at glamour shots. My career didn't last very long.


Random picture climbing to the actual summit of Y mountain. If you hike to the top of the Y, on the upper right, or southern arm, there is a small trail which heads up and back toward a small canyon south of Y mountain. The trail switchbacks in the the canyon through a little woods and then opens into a prairie. At the end of the second prairie, the trail will fork. The left fork will continue to come behind Y mountain to the summit. I believe the right, but more like straight direction on the fork directs hikers to the Provo peak. The mountain meadows are heavily overgrown and the trail can be hard to follow. Due to the overgrowth of the path and weeds, I would suggest wearing pants because of irritation. I will post pictures of the mountain meadow. This is a view looking toward Mt. Timpanogos. Total time to the summit was just over an hour, but I was hiking at a fast pace.

Home at Raleigh

This is the place I currently call home. Fall in Raleigh is rather long with very gradual changes in temperature and color. There are a fair amount of evergreen trees, so much of the area still stays green.




Grass in Raleigh does not have a high priority and is not very thick or lush from what I have seen. It's nice to be back out for a real fall, but It still doesn't compare to South West Connecticut.

Jenn

Jenn came into town for the weekend and helped me to start checking off items on my T0-Do list in North Carolina. Accomplished: Graffiti in the free expression tunnel, Wilmington beach, Museum of Natural History, and a Concert in the park.

I got pinched by a crab, and it made me jump

Not only are venus flytraps carnivorous, but apparently they're verbal as well.

Maters Thesis in Genetics at BYU

If you need some light reading and want to catch up on the most recent research regarding Potato and the disease Pink rot, I highly suggest the Pulitzer prize nominated thesis "EFFECT OF CA AND PH ON DISEASE SEVERITY OF PINK ROT (PHYTOPHTHORA ERYTHROSEPTICA) IN
RUSSET NORKOTAH POTATO (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM).

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2455.pdf

NC State

I started a Ph.D in Plant Breeding and Genetics at North Carolina State Univ. in Raleigh, in the fall of 2008. I will be working on scab aka fusarium head blight on wheat. I will be deriving molecular markers and linkage maps for qtls associated with disease resistance ( essentially finding genes which protect the plant and tagging the genes so they can be identified/followed in pedigress). I am a member of one of the few schools which doesn't have an "S" at the end of their mascot, the wolfpack.