The true focus of A Neotropical Savanna is learning how to identify the plants I’m surrounded by. I like having a record of how I arrived at the name, because I can always go back and look it up when I forget, which is becoming more frequent than I’d like these days. Once I have the name, then I can learn more about the plant through all kinds of research, but I do need that name. I’d like to keep that focus on this blog, but I wander off sometimes – into rain reports and plant blog carnivals for instance.

My solution is to move to another blog that I started awhile back but didn’t do much with. It’s called An Accidental Botanist. At that site, I’d like to lighten up a little, keep my posts a little shorter, and generally have a little more fun with it. My first post of this year at that site is about Berry Go Round #31, with a small and inadequate tribute to Laurent Penet for starting it.

I’ll keep A Neotropical Savanna up, and I’ll do a little housekeeping on it. I’ll move the weather and other “off-topic” posts over to Accidental and I may freshen up some of the older posts with better pictures as the opportunity arises. I’ll even keep working on plant identification posts, but I’ll have relieved myself of the pressure to get something up with any regularity.

Life is short enough as it is.

John’s posts are now found in The Panama Naturalist. Browse there and bookmark it or follow his posts with an RSS feed. His current entry is an update on the algarroba tree, which is now budding.