Consequently, as soon as the weather started getting nice about mid-March, I was happy. I took long walks to nowhere in particular, sometimes alone, sometimes with my friend Lynsey. On our walks, she always enlightens me about something new she's learned in botany. She'll point out the various parts of a flower and launch into an explanation of photosynthesis using big technical terms that don't mean anything to me. Photosynthesis takes place in chloroplasts which have chlorophyll in them which absorbs the sunlight.
Green plants use the sunlight to combine carbon dioxide and water to make sugar and oxygen.
Oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and leave through the stomata. At night, when there is no sun, plants 'shut down' by closing their stomata. And so on. Over spring break, Lynsey, two of my guy friends, and I went camping over near Bend, a trip that I looked forward to just for the chance to be outdoors for three straight days. We did a lot of walking and we spent most of the time outside, even though we had a nice yurt to stay in.