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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; Around the Northwest</title>
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		<title>Mossy Forest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A post-Thanksgiving walk through fog, rain, and slushy snow on the edge of the Opal Creek Recreation Area in the Cascade Foothills:]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a busy day of dealing with car repairs and shopping for Thanksgiving food, I didn't want to walk the dog in our nearby park. I really didn't. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Touches of Color</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out West, in the land of conifers, we don't have the color spectacle that blesses New England this time of year.  But our few wild deciduous shrubs and trees do add some lovely accents to our evergreen forests and browning grasslands (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Erratica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I started writing and sharing photos around an idea I'm tentatively calling, Rocks I Have Loved.  I'm not sure where that idea is going yet.  It might be a series of posts, a photo album, a sequence of poems and/or essays, or nothing.  I should clarify that I use the term "rocks" loosely to refer to caves, piles or layers of rocks, canyons, mountains, mountain ranges. This week, I consider one rock I should have loved from a distance....]]></description>
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		<title>Rainbow in Joseph Canyon</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/03/rainbow-in-joseph-canyon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photo from the Joseph Canyon overlook in Northeastern Oregon...]]></description>
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		<title>Mossy Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moss growing behind my ears, moss for brains, hiding under moss....]]></description>
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		<title>Douglas Fir: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/douglas-fir-species-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life among Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga sp.)  Although I love other trees and plant communities, Douglas fir forests still speak to me of home.  In the Pacific Northwest, they're ubiquitous from the Cascades to the coast.  Douglas fir and other conifers of the region are why I've never felt at ease in the deciduous forests of eastern North America (as lovely as they are), where bare branches in winter make me especially homesick....]]></description>
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		<title>Western Larch: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/11/western-larch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to leave our yurt in northeastern Oregon with Western larch (Larix occidentalis) in full copper-yellow glory.  But when the flanks of the mountains there blaze with what looks like a procession of candles, it's time to get ready for a harsh winter or move to lower elevations....]]></description>
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		<title>Quaking Aspen: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/quaking-aspen-species-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year, I&#8217;m one of many throughout the West enthralled by – and worried about &#8211; one of our most striking fall color trees: Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides ). Utah and Colorado have acres and acres of aspens.  In northeast Oregon, we have smaller groves dotting the more prevalent bunchgrass slopes and ponderosa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canyon Mist</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/wordless-wednesday-canyon-mist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photograph of mist in a remote canyon in Northeast Oregon.]]></description>
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