By Elizabeth Enslin on March 3, 2010
A photo from the Joseph Canyon overlook in Northeastern Oregon…
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Posted in Around the Northwest, Images, Pacific Northwest travel, Recent | Tagged beauty, canyons, photography, rainbows
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 18, 2009
I love how persimmons hang on the tree after the leaves have fallen.
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Posted in Images, Recent, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Gardening | Tagged beauty, persimmons, Sustainable Gardening
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 28, 2009
Series of photographs of trees turning color in mountains of Northeastern Oregon.
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged beauty, nature, photography
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 27, 2009
This time of year, I’m one of many throughout the West enthralled by – and worried about – 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
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Posted in Around the Northwest, Seasons and Rituals, Species of the Week, Wild Plants | Tagged beauty, climate change, land stewardship
By Elizabeth Enslin on October 27, 2009
A photograph of the first snow of the season in eastern Oregon mountains.
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Posted in Explorations, Images, Seasons and Rituals | Tagged beauty, nature, photography, snow
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 24, 2009
Living off-grid in a yurt is mostly wonderful, at least this time of year. I know that spending time in such a beautiful place is a luxury not everyone can afford. So please understand, I’m not complaining….
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Posted in Homesteading, On Blogging, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, patience, species
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 26, 2009
I hate lawns. I dug up most of mine on a city lot in Portland, Oregon and replaced it with fruit trees, berries, vegetables, and flowers. In the parking strips, I planted drought tolerant species. Now on our property in Northeastern Oregon, I’m battling a much larger swath of smooth brome and other introduced pasture grasses to establish an orchard and kitchen garden.
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Posted in Species of the Week, Wild Plants | Tagged beauty, Sustainable Gardening, wild
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 16, 2009
I’ve been pondering colors a lot, trying to find new ways to describe them in my prose. So I was excited by the prompt at Poetic Asides to free associate on color. And I figured it meshed well with the general word association prompt at Read Write Poem. Despite this convergence, I found this poem
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged beauty, inspiration, nature, wordplay
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 11, 2009
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged beauty, desert, lizards, nature writing, wordplay
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 3, 2009
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged beauty, exploration, oceans
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