By Elizabeth Enslin on July 6, 2010
Last week, I spent an afternoon in the old apple orchard to check out the bird nesting scene. The cows found this fascinating….
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Posted in Recent, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged birds, cows, photography, predators, reptiles, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 4, 2010
The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.
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Posted in Recent, Seasons and Rituals, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged birds, holidays, Humor, nature, photography, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 11, 2010
With all the rain out over the last few weeks and the challenges of getting the summer garden in, I’ve been grateful for food that sprouts with no effort on my part. I might not want stinging nettles in my cultivated garden, but I like having a patch on a distant corner of our property.
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Posted in Recent, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening, Wild Plants | Tagged food, Homesteading, nature, Sustainable Gardening, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 4, 2010
Rain. Day before last, it was relentless. We had a reprieve yesterday, and I got some planting done, but most of my garden is flooded and impossible to work. I’m already a week or two behind. In this short season, that could mean a lean year for vegetables. So when I woke at five this
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Posted in Recent, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening, World Travel | Tagged food, Nepal, patience, Sustainable Gardening |
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 28, 2010
People often ask me what it’s like to live in a yurt. As I wrote in an essay published in The Smoking Poet last Fall, much of the living goes on around the yurt rather than in it. And that’s as it should be with a shelter traditionally used by nomads. Take the shower. There’s
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Posted in Homesteading, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, photography, yurts |
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 23, 2010
I’m ecstatic to be back on our property in Northeastern Oregon. There’s lots to do: organizing inside the yurt to make cooking and storage more convenient, building a spring box and laying pipe to get potable water into the yurt, putting in the garden. And there are many challenges: a muddy road, cars that get
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Posted in Images, Recent, Sustainable Food, Wild Plants, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, photography, Sustainable Gardening, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 30, 2010
Today is Save the Frogs Day. Over 2000 species are threatened with extinction….
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Posted in Biodiversity, Politics and History, Recent | Tagged amphibians, political action, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 29, 2010
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….
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Posted in Around the Northwest, health, Recent, Rocks I Have Loved | Tagged geology, hiking, rock climbing, rocks, wild |
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