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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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 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 |
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