Flower Power

The title presents a quite good summary for the first two weeks in Davos. Being used to endless Ericaceae-heaths, the alpine plant diversity of the Davos mountains is somewhat chocking. But in a few weeks I bet we will catch up on our botanical colleagues, which were a small, small step in front of us.

The most fantastic thing, and also the most annoying, with this job is that we need to know everything, and then I really mean everything. I mean, it's not for example accepted to just ignore the 1,5 cm rosette which have just emerged from the snowbed, which later in the summer probably will end up in a 1,5 metre tall violet beaty. And the millions of small grass tufts which can be either one out of 15 Festuca-species but also a Elyna, Agrostis, Carex, Sesleria.......

But all this is of course outweighed by the fact that we actually get paid for hiking up to mountain summits, botanize a bit and the hike down again. And that we learn crazy amounts of new stuff every day.

Have aslo had some time watching football (practical to move to countries which actually qualified...), running, sleeping, eating cheese and taking some pics. The latter will end up on flickr in a few minutes.

Peace and love.

Cajsa