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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; art/clay</title>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 14</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-14</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I&#8217;ve just made it easier to navigate between episodes of What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah. Now at the beginning of each new episode there are links to previous installments: one to the immediately previous episode, and one to the very first episode.  In addition, there&#8217;s a link at the end of each episode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 13</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-13</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Note to readers: It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve had the time to advance the tale of the archæological site called Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah and its inhabitants.  The progress of Professor Einer Wayfarer&#8217;s efforts on that remote ridge in the  Negev Desert to observe the seemingly out-of-place and elusive protégé of her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last chance to see&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; &#8220;Ossuary: an archæology of resurrection&#8221; in the show Death and Rebirth at Maryville University&#8217;s Morton May Gallery in St.Louis.  The show will be up until this friday, December 2.  Click here for details about the show and about the Ossuary.
&#60;&#60; Detail (photo and piece, A.Shock)
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		<title>Pick of the litter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the sculptural vessels I&#8217;ve made recently for upcoming holiday sales, a couple things stand out.  This is one of them:
Feather Bundle Jar with Owl (13.5&#8243; ht, stoneware 2011, photo and object A.Shock)  &#62;&#62;
What you can&#8217;t see in the photo is the interior glaze, a fiery glossy red that contrasts strongly with the dry, dinosaur-green [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;more Three Star Owl news&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deadlines, shows, and orders have been keeping me busy in the studio the past few weeks as the pre-holiday calendar winds up to year&#8217;s end.  Not complaining!  But, I have noticed that recently this space has been more full than usual of Three Star Owl news and less full of natural history, birds, and fiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Owl Face</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Camelback Studio Tour in the Sherwood Heights neighborhood of southern Scottsdale is over until the next one (that&#8217;s March 9, 10, 11, 2012, by the way, so mark your calendars now), and I&#8217;m tired but happy.  Thanks to all who came by to visit, shop, or both.  The sale seemed to occupy the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One more day &#8212; Camelback Studio Tour</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/one-more-day-camelback-studio-tour</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the little white booth in the desert.  It&#8217;s Three Star Owl&#8217;s show tent, currently set up in the backyard for the Camelback Studio Tour and housing an ever-decreasing number of objects.  It&#8217;s great fun to have people drop in and peruse the selection, marvel at E&#8217;s epic number of specimen cactus and succulents, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come visit the Ossuary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Friday Saturday and Sunday Oct 21, 22, 23,  is the Camelback Studio Tour, and Three Star Owl will have wares available for you to peruse and perhaps purchase. Other artists&#8217; studios nearby in the neighborhood will be open as well, with more than 20 artists offering their art for pre-holiday shopping. Support local artists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Three Star Owl manifestations</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/upcoming-three-star-owl-manifestations</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of Three Star Owl events you should know about are coming right up &#8212; these are your only two chances for pre-holiday shopping for Beastieware, Wazzoware and the like.  Both are Phoenix-area events:
The first is the Camelback Studio Tour, Fri Sat and Sun October 21 22 23, from 10am to 5pm.  My yard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn in: The Curious Case of the Owl in the Notebook</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/drawn-in-the-curious-case-of-the-owl-in-the-notebook</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The VLO (Very Large Owl) sculpture &#8220;Windblown Owl&#8221; found a new home recently.  The next VLO is underway, currently drying and eventually migrating to a client in California (shhhh, it&#8217;s a surprise), and I wanted to use the same greenish-golden surface coloring and glazing effect on the new owl.
I had a basic idea of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 12</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-12</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the twelfth installment of a series. There’s a link at the bottom of the page to the thirteenth installment.  Read Part 11 by clicking here, or start at the very beginning by clicking here. 
Previously:
After encountering an anomalous fragment of pottery decorated with a bee and a possible flower, the Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson in the rearview mirror: and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/tucson-in-the-rearview-mirror-and</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rolled back into Phoenix from Tucson earlier today &#8212; the drive seemed nearly instantaneous and was marvelously uneventful, although I did miss the bumper crop of towering dust devils swirling in the dry creosote flats on the Gila River reservation that I&#8217;d seen on the way down but was unable to photograph safely from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owl whistle necklaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update as of Monday 22Aug: thanks for all of your enthusiastic responses!  And thanks to Kate McKinnon for posting them, and loaning me the fine box they were roosting in, too!  All the owl whistle necklaces have found new homes &#8211; the owl/owl-craver ratio was excellent, and there was only a little disappointment.  If you&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Tucson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Star Owl is at the Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival, at the Riverpark Inn just west of I-10 at the Congress Ave exit.  I&#8217;ll be here from 8 to 5 today and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday 19-20 Aug).  Come by soon, things are finding new homes at a fast clip!
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		<title>Blue moon month for Three Star Owl!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/blue-moon-month-for-three-star-owl</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s never happened before, but Three Star Owl has two sales events in southern Arizona in less than two weeks!
Frog skeleton creamer (approx 4&#8243; ht) &#62;&#62; 

Close on the heels of the Southwest Wings Festival, Three Star Owl will be at the first ever Tucson Audubon Society&#8217;s Tucson Bird and Wildlife Festival this week.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 11</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-11</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the eleventh installment of a series. There’s a link at the bottom of the page to the twelfth installment.  Or, to read from the very beginning, click here. 
Previously:
“Our other on-going personnel matter,” Amit Chayes had explained about the sound of argument coming from the mess-tent.  “I take full responsibility. I should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasten your seatbelts&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.Three Star Owl is hitting the road!
For three days &#8212; Thursday, Friday and Saturday August 4, 5, and 6 2011, I&#8217;ll have a booth at the Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival in Sierra Vista, AZ.
For more info about the festival, click HERE.
&#60;&#60; VLO (Very Large Owl) effigy and a couple of coati tails.

Special Note: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 10</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-10</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the tenth installment of a series. There’s a link at the bottom of the page to the eleventh installment.  Or, to read from the very beginning, click here.
Dario’s inelegant complaint was not much to go on, and his mildly exotic accent was like a linguistic version of the ambiguous character on the potsherd [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You never know which foot is when&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the motto of The Pseudopod Waltz logo: 
Remember it! It&#8217;s your sign of quality Three Star Owl fiction (what &#8220;quality&#8221; I&#8217;ll leave up to the reader).  Up until this point, there are two illustrated, serialized stories in this space:
The Ganskopf Incident, which ran in eight short episodes and an epilogue, and is complete (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mess-o&#8217;-Owls (with a serious side-bar)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/mess-o-owls-with-a-serious-side-bar</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/mess-o-owls-with-a-serious-side-bar#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: if you&#8217;re looking at info on what areas are open for birding/touring in Southeastern Arizona as a result of the fires and floods, here&#8217;s a link to a useful and interesting July 19 2011 article in the Arizona Daily Star online: http://azstarnet.com/news/science/environment/article_ad90f282-df75-5c6e-b35b-2f80335577bc.html
&#8212;&#8211;
Last April at &#8220;Birdy Verde&#8221; (more properly known as the Verde Valley Birding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 9</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-9</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the ninth installment of a series. There’s a link at the bottom of the page to the next installment.  Or, to read from the very beginning, click here. 
Previously:
Professor Einer Wayfarer wouldn&#8217;t be needing a ride back to Beer-Sheva right away: she&#8217;d found her &#8220;artifact with an accent&#8221; after all.
The Trenches
Once again, Einer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When it&#8217;s hot outside</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/when-its-hot</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/when-its-hot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 03:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I described how summer&#8217;s heat changes my creative routine.  The point was not to complain, or to display macho heat-tolerance (or lack of it), but to set up this post about one of the things I&#8217;ve recently begun to do during the parts of the day the clay studio isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baked clay</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/baked-clay</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/baked-clay#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year &#8212; for the next three or four months, in fact &#8212; my studio is hot.  Very hot.  Hotter than it is outside, by about five or six degrees, thanks to its translucent acrylic walls and ceiling.
To the right is the actual reading for Wednesday afternoon ( 106.7ºF = 41.50ºC = 314.65ºK) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 8</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-8</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the eighth installment of a series. There&#8217;s a link at the bottom of the page to the next installment.  Or, to read from the very beginning, click here. 
Previously:

The sleek, scented body that had slipped past her in the dark engaged Wayfarer&#8217;s academic curiosity: he was no one she&#8217;d seen yet on site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 7</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-7</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the seventh installment of a series. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.  Or, click here to read from the very beginning. Previously: 
After getting nowhere with the stamped symbol on the broken piece of pottery, Professor Einer Wayfarer disappointingly proclaimed to the dig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Cat Won&#8217;t Comply</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/my-cat-wont-comply</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/my-cat-wont-comply#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what&#8217;s new?  Underpass art along Hwy 60 at Devil&#8217;s Canyon Bridge.
Other way to consider this issue: Is the cat amenable to Show Procedure?

Go ahead, click to enlarge. (Photo A or E Shock)
updated:
Wait, I didn&#8217;t think I would need to explain that this was found art, not made-by-me art.


]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 6</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-6</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-6#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 20:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the sixth installment of a series. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.  Or, click here to read from the very beginning. Previously:
After the professor&#8217;s official and disappointing debunking of the Mystery Object, the staff and students began to move away. Only the undergraduate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 5</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-5</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 04:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifth installment of a series. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.  Or, click here to read from the very beginning. Previously: 
On the underside of the handle the mirror reflected a small textured mark pressed into the clay: a geometric, elemental symbol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migratory cephalopods&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/migratory-cephalopods</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/migratory-cephalopods#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and other creatures of shift and change.
The day began with a coyote, and an oriole.  The coyote we encountered in front of our house, at the start of our early morning walk toward the neaby desert park.  It was on its end of the day commute &#8212; on the way from our street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl in Dead Horse Ranch</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-in-dead-horse-ranch</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-in-dead-horse-ranch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival, and Three Star Owl will be there in the big white tent, along with other vendors and exhibitors Thursday 28 April until Sunday 1 May, 9 &#8211; 5 Thu-Sat, 9 &#8211; 1 Sun.  Dead Horse Ranch State Park, Cottonwood, AZ.

Come on by and see what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 4</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-4</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth installment of a series. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.  Or, click here to read from the very beginning. Previously: 
Wayfarer was warming to her subject, the possible unsecured antiquity.  “So you might say that we&#8217;re looking for an object [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owl? What owl?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/owl-what-owl</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/owl-what-owl#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an MLO (Medium Large Owl) emerged fresh from the kiln, all mute greens and golds, looking wind-blown and content.  I&#8217;d built this owl outside on the back porch, in a plein-air studio annex location during our in-between-not-too-hot-not-too-cold season, and I put it back outside to save indoor shelf space. Anything on the porch is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 3</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-3</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-3#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third installment of a series. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.  Or, click here to read from the very beginning. Previously:
“There&#8217;s half an hour until dinner. Would you like to see the object now?” After coming halfway around the world on short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a reminder from Three Star Owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/just-a-reminder-from-three-star-owl</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/just-a-reminder-from-three-star-owl#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I wrote the following promo last month and then promptly forgot all about it in my Wordpress &#8220;drafts&#8221;.  So, here it is, to be used as a reminder that the exhibition is almost over:

   Allison Shock/Three Star Owl is pleased to debut the new piece &#8220;Assemblage: Owl Hives&#8221; at the Arizona [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 2</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is the second installment of the series, click on the link at the bottom of this page to continue to the next installment.   Or, click here to start reading from the very beginning.  Previously:

Wilson A. Rankle waved a hand to indicate they should follow the goat track back down to camp. “Well, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are the Owl Hives?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/where-are-the-owl-hives</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/where-are-the-owl-hives#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Owl Hives are in Chandler.
On Friday night, March 18, the All AZ Clay Invitational Exhibition opened at the Chandler Center for the Arts, displaying the work of more than 40 clay artists from all over the state of Arizona.  Among them is an installation of artefaux by me, entitled Assemblage: Owl Hives.
&#62;&#62; Assemblage: Owl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Three Star Owl Studio Tour</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/another-three-star-owl-studio-tour</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not every day a big red tour coach pulls up in front of the house to let people off.
Recently an opportunity came my way to take part in a tour series run jointly by Ultimate Art and Cultural Tours and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.  The event is the Behind the Scenes Artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Happened at Beit Bat Ya&#8217;anah: part 1</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-happened-at-beit-bat-yaanah-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Remember, for guaranteed fiction, look for the Pseudopod Waltz logo: &#8220;You Never Know Which Foot Is When.&#8221;)

This is the first installment of a series. The events take place many years before the “Ganskopf Incident”. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to continue to the next installment.

Wayfarer Arrives:
Deep in the Negev Desert, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl, Updated events</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-updated-events</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-updated-events#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who follow Three Star Owl clay studio, I&#8217;ve just updated the Events page &#8212; it had been neglected, I&#8217;m sorry to say &#8212; to reflect upcoming shows and sales. I announce them here, but the Events page (click on Events tab on the bar at the top of this page) will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego is a wrap!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/san-diego-is-a-wrap</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/san-diego-is-a-wrap#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s cheers to all of the Three Star Owl friends and clients who came by, old and new (nice to meet you, Doriot!), to the San Diego Bird Festival this weekend.  And many thanks to Karen Straus and the volunteers and organizers of the San Diego Audubon Society for all of their good care and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The delights of urban camping</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-delights-of-urban-camping</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-delights-of-urban-camping#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the Office, Three Star Owl&#8217;s nest away from nest on certain roadtrips, complete with cot and a TV tray table that serves as a desk, and a battery-powered lamp or two. &#60;&#60;

And here is the Cooper&#8217;s hawk who nests here each time I&#8217;ve stayed in this RV Resort.  It&#8217;s eating something fairly large, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damn that Dove!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/damn-that-dove</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/damn-that-dove#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a bull in a china shop.  It could have been much worse, but still&#8230;
Just after the Three Star Owl Open Studio/Camelback Studio Tour came to an end, and I&#8217;d put all the remaining wares onto my studio worktables to await packing for the imminent San Diego Bird Festival trip, a big stupid dove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There will be owls&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/there-will-be-owls</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/there-will-be-owls#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;among other things.
Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day of Three Star Owl&#8217;s Open Studio, part of the Camelback Studio Tour.  The weather is supposed to be beautiful, but the meteorologists have less lovely predictions for Saturday and Sunday.  We&#8217;ll see.  Rain or shine, wind or calm, I&#8217;ll be here from 10 &#8211; 5 waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open studio at Three Star Owl!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/open-studio-at-three-star-owl</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/open-studio-at-three-star-owl#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Star Owl is proud to be part of the South Scottsdale Art Alliance&#8217;s Camelback Studio Tour next Friday Saturday and Sunday, 25, 26, 27 Feb, from 10am &#8211; 5pm, and you&#8217;re invited!


&#60;&#60; detail, Greenish Beastie Pitcher, breast &#8220;plumage&#8221;
Several homes in the &#8220;we could have been but we voted not to be&#8221; historic neighborhood of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beastly Details</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-beastly-details</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-beastly-details#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beasties are coming!
Here is a close-up of the finished surfaces of the same Beastie Pitchers shown in raw clay a couple of posts ago.  They, and other functional and sculptural ware, will be offered for sale at the upcoming Three Star Owl Open Studio, coming toward the end of this month!  Stay tuned for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beasties in the Raw</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/beasties-in-the-raw</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/beasties-in-the-raw#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the Return of the Beastie Pitcher!  For those of you familiar with Three Star Owl &#8220;Beastie Ware&#8221; &#8212; functional clayware that looks like it might nip your fingers, or wrestle the napkin holder to the ground &#8212; here&#8217;s a march of the beastie pitchers: three in-progress, highly textured pitchers in various stages of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falconeye</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/falconeye</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/falconeye#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long ago as the Old Kingdom (the middle of the third millenium BCE), the Egyptians used the eye of the Falcon &#8212; the eye of Horus, the falcon-headed deity &#8212; as an apotropaic, or protective symbol, wearing the still-popular faience amulets as personal ornament, or tucking them into the wrappings of mummies.
The Left Eye [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet says:</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/cranky-owlet-says</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/cranky-owlet-says#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t forget to VOLE, er&#8230; VOTE!!&#8221;


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		<title>Happy yet Spooky&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/happy-yet-spooky</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/happy-yet-spooky#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8230;Halloween Greetings from Three Star Owl.
(Photo, Detail of &#8220;Mother of Owls&#8221;, Allison Shock, smoke-fired terracotta, 2001)

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		<title>The unfinished hive</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-unfinished-hive</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-unfinished-hive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=10825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What if you had to raise large numbers of owls, herds of owls, swarms of tiny owls, all at once?  What if that was your job?  What would you need?  You might need an Owl Hive.  Or a cluster of Owl Hives. What would an owl hive be like?  Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ganskopf Collection: Epilogue</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-ganskopf-collection-epilogue</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-ganskopf-collection-epilogue#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Ganskopf Incident]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the FINAL final episode, the Epilogue to an eight part series. To read all the episodes, click here: The Ganskopf Incident or on The Ganskopf Incident category in the sidebar to the left.  The earliest posts are at the bottom, scroll down to read them chronologically from the bottom up.)
&#8220;That&#8217;s what conservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We interrupt this flamingo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/we-interrupt-this-flamingo</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to bring you a tiny owlet.  From Pink to Dink, with hardly a blink.
Friday morning, I came home from delivering E to campus, and blissfully opened the back door to let in the first blast of coolish late summer air.  Instead of the usual morning quiet, the back yard was chattering with angry bird sounds: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Back Cover&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/inside-the-back-cover</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/inside-the-back-cover#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;of the newest Maricopa County Audubon Society newsletter, the Fall 2010 CactusWrendition, is a very nice photo article on Three Star Owl.  Thanks, Emily Morris, for putting it together.
]]></description>
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		<title>Whew&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/whew</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/whew#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;back from Sierra Vista and Southwest Wings Festival; tired.  Nice show.  Thanks to everyone who came by, and thank you to the organizers, who did a good job in a new venue.  It&#8217;s always nice to see friends, returning customers, and new faces.
To those of you on my emailing list, if you&#8217;re wondering why you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl is headed to Southwest Wings Festival</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-is-headed-to-southwest-wings-festival</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-is-headed-to-southwest-wings-festival#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come visit &#8220;The Owlet&#8221; in Sierra Vista starting tomorrow, through Saturday.
I have new Three Star Owl work to share, familiar work, unfamiliar work, and, for some reason, LOTS of MUGS!

For more event details please click here.

]]></description>
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		<title>The Ganskopf Collection: Dr. Danneru&#8217;s artifact</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-ganskopf-collection-dr-dannerus-artifact</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-ganskopf-collection-dr-dannerus-artifact#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the seventh installment in a series.  To read all the episodes, click here: The Ganskopf Incident or on The Ganskopf Incident category in the sidebar to the left.  The earliest posts are at the bottom, scroll down to read them chronologically from the bottom up.  
 
 
Under the pretext [...]]]></description>
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		<title>in which I reveal my graphic petticoats along with an Orange-billed sparrow</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/in-which-i-reveal-my-graphic-petticoats-along-with-an-orange-billed-sparrow</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/in-which-i-reveal-my-graphic-petticoats-along-with-an-orange-billed-sparrow#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or, saving shots by going artsy&#8230;
Not all photos are created equal, especially if you&#8217;re an amateur photog like me who asks my competent but limited point-and-shoot digital camera to do things it wasn&#8217;t meant to do, like capture images of cryptic birds high in trees with too many leaves against the light on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you see a Resplendent quetzal&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/did-you-see-a-resplendent-quetzal</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/did-you-see-a-resplendent-quetzal#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8230;when you were in Costa Rica?  Yes.



Did you get a photo of a Resplendent quetzal?  No.



And was the Quetzal resplendent?  Yes.

Resplendent quetzales (Pharomachrus cocinno) are glimmering emerald birds who inhabit the dense, wet montane and cloud forests of parts of Central America. The males have splendid iridescent fringed tail plumes which trail extravagantly behind them, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw Owls in the Ganskopf Special Collection</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/straw-owls-in-the-ganskopf-special-collection</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/straw-owls-in-the-ganskopf-special-collection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the sixth installment of a series.  Read the others chronologically by clicking these links: first, second, third, fourth, fifth)
Within a month, a letter from Professor Harrower had arrived requiring me to return to the Ganskopf Institute to draw another selection of mysterious “Owl Fetishes” from the Institute&#8217;s diverse collection.  The project was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl at Verde Birdy</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-verde-birdy</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-verde-birdy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few images from last weekend&#8217;s event at the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival.  If you haven&#8217;t checked out the Verde Valley in north central Arizona, you should &#8212; it&#8217;s beautiful green country, with big trees and lots of year-round water like the Verde River, as well as surrounding mountains, good restaurants, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl at Verde Birdy this week</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-verde-birdy-this-week</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-verde-birdy-this-week#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this week is the Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival in Cottonwood Arizona.  The event is held each year in Dead Horse Ranch State park, which is OPEN (unlike some other Arizona state parks!).

Three Star Owl will be there, with a pithy assortment of one of a kind, hand made clay items from Gila [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nudging clay horned lizards along</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/nudging-clay-horned-lizards-along</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/nudging-clay-horned-lizards-along#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted about my process for making horned lizard bowls (affectionately known as Horny toads) from clay.  Here are the next few steps, all shown in one photo, below.
To the right is a now completely assembled and textured horned lizard, in the leather hard stage, drying.  In the center is a bone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two more Ganskopf &#8220;fetishes&#8221;: stone owls or just rocks?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/two-more-ganskopf-fetishes-stone-owls-or-just-rocks</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/two-more-ganskopf-fetishes-stone-owls-or-just-rocks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fifth installment of the Ganskopf series.  Read the first, second, third and fourth here.
&#8220;Professor Harrower wants to speak to me?&#8221; I asked, surprised.  Miss Laguna nodded, and pushed the phone towards me in the air.
After months of contact by letter &#8212; and snail mail at that &#8212; to say that I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squeezing out horned lizards from clay</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/squeezing-out-horned-lizards-from-clay</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/squeezing-out-horned-lizards-from-clay#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new batch of clay horned lizards under way &#8212; early steps:
From top to bottom: 
1) Rough out body shape by pinching; head and tail included in starting clay lump.
2) Create appendages: horns, limbs.  Allow to &#8220;set up&#8221; or slightly stiffen, while: refining body shape of liz.
3) Further refine body shape; note detail in head, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to Ganskopf fetishes</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/return-to-ganskopf-fetishes</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=6858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is the fourth installment in the series: read the others here, here and here.)
Several months went by before I heard from Professor Harrower again.  This hiatus surprised me, because the press had kept up with a stream of cheesey, sensationalist Ganskopf &#8220;mystery relic&#8221; articles, keeping public interest simmering.  But eventually a letter came in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two coatis hit the road&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/two-coatis-hit-the-road</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/two-coatis-hit-the-road#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but only one came back.
Thanks to everybody who came by Three Star Owl at Wings Over Willcox &#8212; the show was a very good one for &#8220;the owl&#8221;.  Cranes were seen, friends were met and re-met, many clay pieces found good new homes.  And thanks also to the organizers of the Festival, who have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winging over to Willcox</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/winging-over-to-willcox</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three Star Owl is spending this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Willcox, AZ, for the annual Wings Over Willcox festival.  If you&#8217;re in the area, stop by the Willcox Community Center, and see what&#8217;s up.
(Detail of an oval vessel with a Sandhill Crane repoussé and carved in low relief, 10.5&#8243;, stoneware, A.Shock 2009)

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		<title>Got Gila Monster?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/got-gila-monster</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/got-gila-monster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gila monsters (Heloderma suspectum) are large stumpy lizards with bright handsome markings that are both cryptic and aposematic simultaneously, and whose hands look like neoprene wetsuit gloves with claws.  They are remarkable for being one of only two venomous lizard species in the world.  They live in the Sonoran and southern Great Basin Deserts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many thanks to everyone&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/many-thanks-to-everyone</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=6590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;who stopped by to visit Three Star Owl at the Audubon Arizona Gifts from Nature fundraiser and show in Scottsdale this Friday and Saturday.  The rain stayed away, and it was nice to see everyone out and about!  Special thanks to everyone at Audubon Arizona, for once again wrangling a great show!
(photo: smoke-fired coati effigy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A peek at the new guys&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-peek-at-the-new-guys</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=6575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;awaiting pricing and packing for Gifts for Nature, this Friday and Saturday, 11-12 Dec 2009, at the Cattle Track Compound in Scottsdale, AZ (more details here). There seem to be a lot of snouts and tails waving in the air&#8230; Hope you can come and see what they&#8217;re attached to!


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		<title>Announcing the next Three Star Owl event:</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/announcing-the-next-three-star-owl-event</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/announcing-the-next-three-star-owl-event#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Audubon Arizona&#8217;s Gifts from Nature fundraiser.
Save the date!  Coming up quickly on the 11th and 12th of December, at the Cattletrack Compound in Scottsdale:

The Friday evening event is a festive preview and advance sale, with music, hors d&#8217;oevres, wine and hot cider.  It&#8217;s $25 per person (call for reservations, 602-468-6470 ext. 103). The Saturday public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair warning on this Black Friday&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/fair-warning-on-this-black-friday</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/fair-warning-on-this-black-friday#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://threestarowl.com/?p=6471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;for those of us who decide to enter the Fray, this is the kind of thing you&#8217;ll be up against:
Yes, the Holidays must be upon us, it&#8217;s the traditional Santa Hat-Wearing Wiener Dog on a Bun with Lettuce and Mustard Effigy Vessel (featuring removable lid), now appearing at your local discount department store.  Oh, Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More coati moments</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/more-coati-moments</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spotting coatis in Sabino canyon was fortunate in many ways.  Not only is it always amazing to see a coati, but it was artistically inspiring, too.  Before the Tucson visit I had already begun a small coati effigy bowl, so on returning home I was all fired up to finish it and start another bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 10 turned out to be unofficial Rock Art Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/october-10-turned-out-to-be-unofficial-rock-art-day</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/october-10-turned-out-to-be-unofficial-rock-art-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and we spent the day near Sedona in the Red Rocks and Wet Beaver Creek visiting Palatki and V-V (a ranch brand pronounced Vee-Bar-Vee), both quite spectacular rock art venues.
These are fairly easily accessible sites maintained by the Forest Service for public viewing, and well worth the trip (around 2 1/2 hours from Phoenix, much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is this animal?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-is-this-animal</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rat, pig, dog, hedgehog, chupacabra, what?
The answer is all of the above.  Long a mainstay of Three Star Owl sculptural subjects, this pointy-ended, feisty-looking, toothy mammal has been called all of them.  And that would be correct &#8212; called a &#8220;rαtdog&#8221; for convenience &#8212; it stands for Every Mammal, including us human ones.  Rαtdogs represent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Studio assistant</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/studio-assistant</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/studio-assistant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hector Halfsquid leaves his mark.

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		<title>Quite a Toadly Frog</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/quite-a-toadly-frog</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks a lot like a toad, with a stumpy physique and warty skin, but it&#8217;s a Canyon Tree Frog (Hyla arenicolor).  How to tell it&#8217;s a frog? One way: no parotoid glands &#8212; instead you can see the round flat areas of its tympani (hearing structures) behind and slightly below the eye. Also, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweaking Tiny Tins: making mini watercolor kits from mint boxes</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/tweaking-tiny-tins-making-mini-watercolor-kits-from-mint-boxes</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/tweaking-tiny-tins-making-mini-watercolor-kits-from-mint-boxes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody in the world has posted their version of the Miniature Watercolor Box, usually ingeniously created from any flat metal tin, often Altoids, sometimes Velamints, or others (see here, here, and here, just for a few examples of many).  These projects are all well-described and illustrated. I hereby add my version, but will only add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cnemie-philia</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/cnemie-philia</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, that&#8217;s &#8220;Cnemie-philia&#8221; &#8212; the love of lizards in the genus Cnemidophorus, now more properly called by their current genus name, Aspidoscelis, or Whiptails.  Our locals are Sonoran tiger whiptails (Aspidoscelis tigris punctilinealis), and they&#8217;re the most commonly seen lizard in our Phoenix area yard.  They like it hot and are out and about during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye to a friend</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/goodbye-to-a-friend</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tigers walk behind me, they are to remind me, that i am lost, but i&#8217;m not afraid
&#8211;David Byrne

My friend Gloria died at home in St. Louis earlier this year.  She was a good artist, teacher, and person.
(Naive-style watercolor painted for Wolf, A.Shock 2009)

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		<title>Many thanks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/many-thanks</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;to everyone who helped make Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival the most successful one yet for Three Star Owl.  Hope to see you there next year.
By the way, if you had your eye on an item before the show, don&#8217;t assume it&#8217;s not available &#8212; please email me.
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		<title>Howdy from Sierra Vista, Arizona</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/howdy-from-sierra-vista-arizona</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaze upon Sierra Vista, in south eastern Arizona, where the beautiful Huachuca Mountains beetle over the fast food restaurants and motels of the busy town.  Not visible in this shot, but also beetling, is the everpresent and mysterious white surveillance blimp.  One day, I will find out about the white blimp.  Maybe today.

The natural beauty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak preview of Southwest Wings assortment</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/sneak-preview-of-southwest-wings-assortment</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last pieces for Three Star Owl&#8217;s Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival date slid into the kiln thursday, so no more pinching, coiling, stamping, slipping, scoring, or glazing nares, coverts, hooves, beaks, talons, or TOES again, until after the event.  Meanwhile, here&#8217;s a peek at a few things lurking informally around the studio now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord of the Fly(catchers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late each spring, later than most other neotropical migrants, the Brown-crested flycatchers (Myiarchus tyrannulus) return to our neighborhood (and other places in southern Arizona) from their wintering grounds in Mexico.
They are relatively large tyrant flycatchers, about the size of the more familiar Cardinal, but unlike Cardinals they&#8217;re not usually seen on or even terribly close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Javelina, or two</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/have-a-javelina-or-two</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days are getting short until Three Star Owl&#8217;s third appearance at Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival, and I&#8217;m in a groove, making pieces for the event.  As posted, I&#8217;ve been making mugs, and also owls.  Lots of owls.  Even more owls than usual.
So recently I turned to the hairy side of Sonoran fauna, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O the Wonder that is Short-alls!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/o-the-wonder-that-is-short-alls</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Paean to the Short-all&#8221;  (India ink and watercolor sketch,  6&#215;9&#8243;, A.Shock)
One crabby technical addition: note the bleeding that occurred in the sepia ink lines adjacent to washes in the drawing.  This happened after adding the watercolor washes, after an hour of ink-drying time.  So, if you&#8217;re using Higgins &#8220;waterproof&#8221; sepia drawing ink, note that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new batch of &#8220;Songbird&#8221; mugs is underway</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-new-batch-of-songbird-mugs-is-underway</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-new-batch-of-songbird-mugs-is-underway#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now in heavy production mode for the upcoming Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival in southeastern Arizona (see Events for details).  Some of the objects I&#8217;m making in small batches are smooth-surfaced mugs for glazing bird portraits on.  Flat-bottomed, hand-built (as opposed to wheel-thrown), and intended for daily use, these mugs have proven popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Dove-o-rama: White-winged doves</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/desert-dove-o-rama-white-winged-doves</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arriving in the spring, they lurk like vultures for weeks on the crowns of blooming saguaros, waiting for the flowers to swell into fat green fruits.  When they do, the White winged doves (Zenaida asiatica) rip them open with their strong fruit-ripping beaks, exposing the sweet red fruit and feasting greedily.  Sometimes several doves will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Cat&#8217;s Own Dream (equal time category)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/in-the-cats-own-dream-equal-time-category</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/in-the-cats-own-dream-equal-time-category#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;she&#8217;s Queen B in the Fiery Jungle.

(B in the Grass, watercolor 7&#215;10&#8243; A. Shock 2009)

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		<title>Festival of Desert Doves: the Other Collared Dove</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/festival-of-desert-doves-the-other-collared-dove</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) has an agenda well-befitting a Columbid: &#8220;Must Colonize New World.&#8221; 
Actually, it started before that, and a lot farther east: a native of central Asia, the Collared Dove had populated Europe as far west as Great Britain by the 1950s.  By the early &#8217;80s, a population had taken hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In The Cat&#8217;s Own Dream&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;he is Hector Roi:

&#8220;Hector Roi&#8221; watercolor and colored pencil, 7&#215;10&#8243; by A. Shock 2009
Raccoon recount
Also, on an unrelated but more naturalistic topic, a reassessment of the local raccoon population has been necessary.  The night after the Hair Hen post, mama raccoon showed up with FOUR kits.  It was clear that this could not be yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival of Desert Doves: African Collared Dove</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/festival-of-desert-doves-african-collared-dove</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The desert suburbs of Phoenix are Columbid-rich, that is, there are many species of doves and pigeons.  Yesterday I was putting out seed in a neighbor&#8217;s gravel drive just before sunset.  The area is quite open, and at that time of day it fills with fat, free-loading doves and pigeons who are used to being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constellation Alien Invader Roadkill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/constellation-alien-invader-roadkill</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in which Galactic Possum battles the Celestial Army of Campervans and nearly always loses.  Nearby constellation Ferafelis vorax waits to feast on the carnage.  Visible only in the Southern Hemisphere.

(A.Shock 2009, 6&#8243;x9&#8243; Watercolor, gouache and charcoal)
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		<title>Springtime do-over in Sedona (with Bonus Wild Hen nidification)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/springtime-do-over-in-sedona-with-bonus-wild-hen-nidification</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We missed some of Spring in the desert this year, so last weekend we went in search of it under the Mogollon Rim: Sunday found us hiking along the West Fork of Oak Creek in Sedona.  It&#8217;s one of the more popular trails in that popular area, and at times it&#8217;s mobbed by clusters of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamboling Gambel&#8217;s Quailets</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/gamboling-gambels-quailets</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 04:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our area, the first Gambel&#8217;s quail chicks of the year usually start showing up in early May,  clustered around their parents under the mesquite trees in the yard, pecking expertly at the ground like the precocial youngsters they are.  This year, since we weren&#8217;t around then, we missed the &#8220;nebula phase&#8221; of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Sketchbook: Owlwall</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/from-the-sketchbook-owlwall</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 05:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<title>Further Ganskopf owl fetishes</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/further-ganskopf-owl-fetishes</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The third in a series: read the first and second parts)
It had been a while since I&#8217;d had a note from professor Harrower with Ganskopf numbers to illustrate, and there had been some changes at the Foundation since my last visit. Stanley was still at the front door in his epauletted shirt and ill-fitting trousers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another trio of Ganskopf owl &#8220;fetishes&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The second in a series: read the first here)
The next session at the Ganskopf Foundation Library was much like the last (the first I omitted because no drawing actually occurred, just filling out lengthy forms, and being issued a visitor&#8217;s ID).  This second appointment had also been arranged by Professor Harrower.  Once again he&#8217;d sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intense clay overload (in a good way) &#8212; NCECA Phoenix</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/intense-clay-overload-in-a-good-way-nceca-phoenix</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past three days I&#8217;ve been immersed in clay.  Sounds muddy, but what I mean is, of course, NCECA: demos, tools, galleries, other clay artists, techniques, long-time friends from St. Louis, Metro Light Rail, even a little shopping, and downtown Phoenix: all those things compressed into a fairly short amount of time, in three long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-Dome Head: the Geology of Owl Crania</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a property of owls I call &#8220;Half-Dome Head.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a shape that&#8217;s noticeable in the profile of all owls, particularly the larger ones.  The Barred Owl to the right is exhibiting major Half-Dome Head.  If Half-Dome Head can be achieved when making owls in clay, the resulting effigies will be Especially Owly.
The name derives [...]]]></description>
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