By Elizabeth Enslin on April 22, 2010
I’ve been going through old photos to pick out some that might be appropriate for an album (or maybe a series of blog posts), tentatively entitled, “Rocks I Have Loved.” It struck me this morning how well that metaphor suits Earth Day….
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Posted in Images, Pacific Northwest travel, Politics and History, Recent, Rocks I Have Loved | Tagged ancient history, archaeology, nostalgia, photography, rocks |
By Elizabeth Enslin on November 19, 2009
It’s wordle time again at Read Write Poem. This month’s prompt delivered a collection of words beginning with “P”….
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Posted in Poetry, Recent | Tagged books, nostalgia, Poetry, wordplay |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 25, 2009
It’s kind of ugly and horribly bitter, but the years I spent in Nepal have made it into comfort food — and one I sorely miss. How shall I prepare my first harvest of these? Karela ko achar? Or fried in ghee? Imagining either makes me dizzy with happiness. Baby bitter melon
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Posted in Sustainable Gardening | Tagged food, nostalgia, Sustainable Gardening |
By Elizabeth Enslin on April 27, 2009
In grade school, I used to love those assignments where the teacher gave us ten vocabulary words and said we had to use all of them in a story. Those were good times, and I’ve already tried to revive them here in prose and poetry. Today, the NaPoWriMo prompt at Read Write Poem invited us
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Posted in NaPoWriMo | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, nostalgia, passion, Poetry |
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 20, 2009
Right on schedule for the spring equinox, Pseudacris regilla arrived several days ago in my backyard pond here in Portland, Oregon. I haven’t seen him yet, but I hear him every night inviting females to join him in his half wine barrel.
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Posted in Around the Northwest, Biodiversity, Featured, Seasons and Rituals, Species of the Week, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged climate change, frogs, nature, nostalgia, ponds, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on March 20, 2009
I grew up an introverted, only child. With my cat or rabbit stretched out beside me, I spent many evenings curled up in some cozy corner, thumbing through animal books…
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Posted in Biodiversity, On Blogging, Species of the Week, Writing | Tagged books, creative nonfiction, introductions, nostalgia, species |
By Elizabeth Enslin on February 1, 2009
Bald Eagle, Sandy River Delta So many birds today on the Sandy River Delta, including two bald eagles. One flew overhead, landed in a cottonwood tree by the Columbia River shore, screeched and flapped its wings at another already in the tree. Courtship perhaps. The water has receded a lot over the last few weeks,
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Posted in Around the Northwest, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, nostalgia, photography, play |
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