The alarm went off, as always, at 4 a.m. The first thing I did was to head for the door to check out the day’s weather so I could plan my schedule, which would inevitably be determined by the nature of the clouds. In Sikkim, a small region in the Eastern Himalaya, everyone’s life had to be adjusted to unpredictable weather. In my case, I quickly discovered that at high-altitudes, a field researcher had to take advantage of every sunny day, particularly if she was studying plant-pollinator interaction involving Rhododendrons, possibly the most exquisite flowers on the planet.