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Remember when plant identification meant hauling around a massive field guide from the 90s?
Now my kid just snaps a photo with an app, and we get an answer in seconds, which is great, but I do miss the quiet struggle of flipping through those heavy, water-stained pages together.
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alexw756mo ago
Lol, I miss the struggle too. My old guide was so wrong half the time we'd end up arguing over blurry pictures of leaves.
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lindamartin6mo ago
Oh man, those blurry leaf pictures were the worst. I'm pretty sure I've won arguments with a guidebook by just being louder and more stubborn.
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willow_morgan5mo ago
My 2003 Peterson guide had this awful photo of a sugar maple leaf that looked like a brown blob. I convinced my whole hiking group we'd found some rare oak hybrid because I just kept pointing at the page and saying "see the lobes!" We spent twenty minutes debating before someone pulled out their phone.
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