By Elizabeth Enslin on August 29, 2010
It’s that time of year again, when my taste buds give up on peaches and berries and begin longing for crunchy pears and apples. We have a lovely old pear tree above the old homestead on our land. Every year, I wait for the pears to ripen… …and every year, the competition beats me to
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainable Food, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged bears, fruit, photography, trees, wild |
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 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 |
By Elizabeth Enslin on February 19, 2010
Tomorrow, we drive to NE Oregon to spend a week or so in our yurt (and a few other places). The creature I fear most on this trip is not the cougar, wolf or porcupine. It’s much smaller. Most females and the younger males of the species could fit into the palm of my hand….
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Posted in Recent, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged archaeology, climate change, Homesteading, mammals, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on January 1, 2010
I woke to the first day of 2007 in a treehouse in Northern Laos. That set a standard for New Year’s celebrations that I’ll probably never live up to again. It was just me, my partner Jerry, and all the wildlife of Bokeo Nature Reserve. We could have joined eight other travelers at the main treehouse for a night of revelry, but we longed for solitude….
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Posted in Eco Travel, Recent, World Travel | Tagged creative nonfiction, nature writing, photography, wild |
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