The Wild Life and Times of a Botanical Geek

--I'm starting to get very worried about the Japanese magnolia. Like all the rest of the deciduous plants, it's losing its leaves, but when I went out to water it today, I noticed something troubling. It looks like it's putting out more leaf buds. Despite what the weather's like now, winter *is* coming, and I'm really worried that it's going to get badly hurt because of this move. I could be wrong, and they could just be winter buds, but I really don't think so. They're green and fuzzy and cute and look like they belong in the spring. I guess I'll need to look at the Japanese magnolias at school and do a comparison, since they're losing their leaves too. I think it may just not yet be accustomed to the weather here, which can be odd in the winter. We typically have a mild winter up until December(right now it's *really* nice outside, when it should be getting, you know, cold), at which point the temperature plummets and we have a bitterly cold winter until about early March or so.

In either case, I really hope it realizes that, you know, the days are getting shorter. Winter is coming, despite the temperature. I don't want it to die. ._.

--I finally saw "Run Lola Run" last night. That was definitely an interesting movie. I wouldn't mind seeing it again, because it seems like I could probably find a lot more if I saw it a second time around. The music was definitely fun. I should poke around for the soundtrack.

--I should look around for a recipe for vanilla cream sauce. It seems like it'd be a really useful and versatile recipe to have. I've had it in a really runny form on apple streudel, which was delicious, and last night when we were at a restaurant, I had a dessert that seemed to be a much thicker version of it(almost like not-quite-set pudding) with fresh berries. Uhnngod. So good.