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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; botany</title>
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		<title>The Boss in her office: &#8220;checking for lard&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is a Spot the Bird, although it's less of a quiz than a photo series. All photos A or E Shock.  Click to enlarge.]
Here are some feral date palms, growing wild at a substantial oasis in Death Valley, CA.  The date palm is Phoenix dactylifera (&#8220;finger-bearing&#8221;), but in this case we could call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two too-hot pear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says me: few plants are more gratifying than prickly pear cactus, Opuntia spp.  At least, if you live in the desert, or any reasonably dry place.
Actually, even in not so dry places: we saw some naturalized in Aoteraroa (New Zealand), which seemed frankly bizarre, knowing how much rain that island gets (see the photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Salado in early spring</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/rio-salado-in-early-spring</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I actually got outdoors to breathe air, soak up sunbeams, and take a look at what&#8217;s up, and what&#8217;s in the air.  It&#8217;d been awhile, and I thought I&#8217;d celebrate by passing along some of what&#8217;s happening along the Salt River, smack in the middle of the City of Phoenix, AZ.
&#60;&#60; green Goodding&#8217;s willows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redcaps and Redthroats: &#8217;shrooms and loons&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;on the northwest Oregon coast.
It&#8217;s not very much like the Sonoran Desert here. Everything&#8217;s either wet or damp, and when it rains it&#8217;s not a pounding monsoonal deluge that ends quickly, but a steady long-term soaking, which might last hours, days, or the rest of the year.  Things that live here are water-loving organisms, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously Cereus</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/seriously-cereus</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather has cooled a bit, and even the succulents in the yard are perking up a little.  Here&#8217;s a shot of a luncheon-plate sized flower of a nocturnal, non-native Cereus aethiops columnar cactus, taken at dawn before it faded in the rays of the sun.
(Photo of Cereus aethiops blossom by A.Shock)
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		<title>My Hoodia Stinketh</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/my-hoodia-stinketh</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few days I&#8217;ve been whiffing a whiff, which has caused me to search for the dead mouse in my studio.
Then, I noticed the Hoodia is blooming.  It sits on the shelves right outside the work tables.  That window is always open, being the draw-source for the swamp cooler air.  So the stinkitude of [...]]]></description>
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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>Harakeke rules!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/harakeke-rules</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in Southern California as a kid, I was familiar with the massive, blade-leafed clumping plant widely used in landscaping called Flax, or New Zealand Flax.  So I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised to see it growing everywhere in New Zealand, right?  Still, my first dim thought was, &#8220;Oh, they landscape with it here, too, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it possible to see a Kiwi?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/is-it-possible-to-see-a-kiwi</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, and we did!  Also very large eels that live in very small streams, and giant crickets called Weta.  Moreporks (New Zealand&#8217;s only native owl) made themselves heard, although not seen.

The kiwi on the right is carved from Kauri, the huge New Zealand tree which isn&#8217;t like any other tree I&#8217;ve ever seen.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tall spiny guys</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/tall-spiny-guys</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more post from our desert hike last weekend, because, well &#8212; Wow!
Right along the trail we encountered two specimens of individual cactus that seemed taller than most of their kin.  One was a towering, somewhat spindly saguaro. Of course, saguaros are known for their height, but this was one of the tallest I&#8217;ve seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Chimaeras in the wild</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/desert-chimaeras-in-the-wild</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E and I managed to break away from work and gardening and the yard long enough to go out into the desert world, on a trail on the edge of Hell&#8217;s Canyon Wildernerss west of Phoenix.  It&#8217;s a real wilderness, but the trail we took merely skirts the proper wild stuff. It&#8217;s right next to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desert Chimaeras in the garden</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/yard-list/desert-chimaeras</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We go from desert Gryphons to desert Chimaeras &#8212; of course, not real chimaeras, in either the mythological or the genetic sense.  I&#8217;m talking about planting desert perennials in clumps, so that with maturity comes an exciting mixed-plant combo that combats the tedious &#8220;Plug-a-plant&#8221; school of xeric landscaping we see so much of here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another famous saguaro plunge</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/another-famous-saguaro-plunge</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most famous saguaro plunge stories there is tells of the death of a man with a gun plugging saguaros in the Arizona desert.  You&#8217;ve probably heard the story &#8212; a heartless gunman is killed by a saguaro he shoots until it falls on him.
I always suspected this tale was urban legend, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic &#8220;Saguaro falls on car&#8221; postcard</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/botany/classic-saguaro-falls-on-car-postcard</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Looked all over the place for this classic old card, when our saguaro fell over crushing plants and shelves.  Today, I finally tracked it down, still in print, sold in our local Walgreens drugstore.  I don&#8217;t know why, but somehow it seems significant that the car&#8217;s plate is Oregon.  You know the old &#8220;We don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saguaros in the snow</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/field-trips/saguaros-in-the-snow</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a couple of scenes to get us low-elevation desert dwellers into a holiday mood:

Photos: A. Shock, Three Star Owl.  Both were taken after a snowstorm,  Tonto National Monument, above the Tonto Basin, AZ.  The top photo overlooks Roosvelt Lake and the Sierra Ancha Mountains.

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		<title>Thanksgiving saguaro plunge&#8211;Carnegiea carnage</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/thanksgiving-saguaro-plunge-carnegiea-carnage</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was leaning, but not that much.  On Thanksgiving morning while we had breakfast (E, the M, and me), it fell with a huge thump from no particular direction. Later, E found the saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea): under the back mesquite, lying split like a toppled Doric column on top of beloved cax and sux, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botanical horrors: when grass grows bad</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/botanical-horrors-when-grass-grows-bad</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photo of a lovely Red barrel cactus in Miss Thang&#8217;s garden.
The barrel is happy where it is, and is growing quickly and healthily.  Unfortunately, we&#8217;ve had a Bermuda Grass invasion nearby, and despite E&#8217;s manual, non-toxic efforts to control the grass, it&#8217;s spread up to the Red Barrel.  It was bad enough [...]]]></description>
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