Editing Journal Archives (section)

===The Flower of the Desert===

'''Abstract'''

Photographic essay of a rare flower that blooms in the Rub al Khali Desert on the Arabian Peninsula and the adaptations it has gone through to survive.  It subsists on minimal water, like a cactus, and has an extremely wide-spread and shallow root structure, sometimes stretching miles and joining several of the flowers into a symbiotic network.  The flower also bears spines tipped with a strange, highly toxic, poison.

'''About the Explorer'''

Olsen Ridge is a botanist from Holland who received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.  He spent several years cataloging the flora of the Australian Outback and the New Zealand plateaus before settling into a more sedentary life as a researcher for the Cairo office.