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	<title>Yips and Howls &#187; nature</title>
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	<description>A Writer's Reflections on Nature and Culture</description>
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		<title>Wren Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/07/wren-independence-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house wrens nesting on our yurt porch chose this morning, the 4th of July, to shoo their young ones out of the nest.]]></description>
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		<title>When Life Gives You Weeds&#8230;Eat &#8216;Em</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/06/when-life-gives-you-weeds-eat-em/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the rain out over the last few weeks and the challenges of getting the summer garden in, I&#8217;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. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Haiti Links</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2010/01/more-haiti-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on my Martin Luther King Day post, here are some more links that expose mainstream media bias and deepen historical and political understanding of Haiti:...]]></description>
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		<title>Our Live Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/our-live-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be the Christmas tree enthusiast in the family.  I'd drive around Seattle for hours looking for the perfect tree, set it up, decorate it....]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Patterns</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/ice-patterns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing experts tell us to never, ever open a story with the weather. And while a brief comment on the weather can sometimes be an ice breaker, extended conversations about it more likely signal that both parties have run out of interesting things to say. That's all changing now....]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Light</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/12/winter-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photograph of winter light on water through an almost leafless willow tree.]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Color in Northeast Oregon</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/autumn-color-in-northeast-oregon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Series of photographs of trees turning color in mountains of Northeastern Oregon.]]></description>
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		<title>First Snow</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/10/first-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photograph of the first snow of the season in eastern Oregon mountains.]]></description>
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		<title>Townsend&#8217;s Big-Eared Bat: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/townsends-big-eared-bat/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/09/townsends-big-eared-bat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On our Northeast Oregon property, we have an old house that's rotting.  It has little historic or architectural value, so we've been leaning towards tearing it down. Then my nephew, Gerek, found the bat in the closet....]]></description>
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		<title>Great Horned Owl: Species of the Week</title>
		<link>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/great-horned-owl-species-of-the-week-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.elizabethenslin.com/2009/08/great-horned-owl-species-of-the-week-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Enslin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard the strange noises in late June: whistling squawks that sounded like sea gulls five hundred miles off course. The calls began at sundown every evening and continued throughout the night.  I couldn't imagine what besides an owl would make so much noise after dark.   But owls hoot.  Right?  Couldn't possibly be owls, I thought....]]></description>
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