I Traveled For Miles On MY OWN 2wo Feet and all i Gots For It Wuz These 2wo Berries
I’m sitting here on Yume 2kki, 
listening to the Frozen Glade track on loop. It’s very soothing. I hope to explore my aesthetic interests in frozen landscapes more someday. This has been a rough week since I started the blog. A death in the church and some spiritual issues, but we are going to make it. If you are Christian and reading this, please pray for my church community and I.
Right now though, I feel at peace. I’m really enjoying slowly working on this website. The guestbook is now open, so feel free to stop by and say hello! I need to do some more touch-ups on it, but that will come later. I’ve got lots of plans for the site. A daily church calendar widget on the home page, image gallery, and Psalter pages all to come hopefully in the near future. I oughta really get back to work though. I have a lot of studying to do.
A few days ago, I went through a trek through some of the last remaining natural sites in my city. Beaches behind private property (still public, a strip from a park), a wildlife preserve, and an abandoned golf course. Familiarizing myself more with the local ecology. I harvested a spiny hackberry (C. Pallida) berry and suckled on it until it had no more flesh, and wrapped it in a wet paper towel for germination. I also harvested a strange red berry that I didn’t recognize. It was growing in total sandy, saline marsh and beach conditions. I was totally amazed! It turns out it’s a Carolina wolfberry (Lycium carolinianum). It’s edible! It tasted like a sweet tomato. I feel very inspired to try domesticating a local plant someday. There are so many incredible plants here that we could be growing to feed people. So many opportunities for new flavors in Mexican cuisine. A bizarro world, alternate path for what this place should have been. I always think about that sort of thing. Definitely will be more updates on these ideas in the future.
I had a lot of thoughts to record here I’m sure, but I forgot them all. That’s all I have to say for tonight. God bless!
By Tejano