I drove to the five selected WA State Parks early in 1987 to measure three balsamroot species, where I fell in love with Head Ranger Tom H. at Palouse Falls. I tried to assess emergence, relationships between ontogeny and phylogeny, and variations due to the environment, through changes in variable correlations over two years, and although I was not satisfied with the results, my research suggested an approach to the quantitative, organismal study of evolutionary events.