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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; furbearers</title>
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		<title>The Hidden Egg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year the world is pregnant with nests full of eggs, tiny cottontails hopping and hiding in the yard, fledgling birds following their parents food-begging insistently, new yellow-green leaves and catkins on the mesquite trees, and glorious cactus blooms.
&#60;&#60; Praying mantis egg-case on a Palo Verde twig (photo E.Shock).  &#62;&#62; close-up of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild burro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday, E and I took a Sunday drive.  We got out into the desert, to look for things. Normally, April is a good time of year for wildflowers, but due to the late freezes this year&#8217;s show is a bit sporadic &#8212; some things, like the Paloverde trees, are spectacular.  All over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yule mule deer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a reindeer, and it doesn&#8217;t have a red nose.  But, a yule mule deer licking its nose with a pink tongue is as close as I could get&#8230;
 
Here&#8217;s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas anyhow!

 
(Muledeer in Hualapai Mountains, AZ; photo by E.Shock)
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		<title>Whew&#8230;</title>
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		<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>Rock-watching in the wind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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A few days ago, we drove far out into sage-covered lava rocks to check out some hot springs on the east side of the Sierra Nevada.  After walking to the top of the hill, walking around the next hill and between two other hills, seeing what birds were around and about, and while E [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yep, goats in trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you say &#8220;Goats in Trees,&#8221; people say, &#8220;No way.&#8221;
Way.
Here are goats in trees.
(Photo by E.Shock; Oman, 2010)
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		<title>It&#8217;s the most bunnerful time of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;&#60;  Two of these equals these. ↓
Desert cottontails abound in the yard right now.  The desert is green from the late winter rains, so there&#8217;s lots to eat.  Adult frolicking leads to tiny bunlets.  The two in the photo above on the right were stashed by mom in a shallow scrape right out in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Salado in early spring</title>
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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>Fair warning on this Black Friday&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/fair-warning-on-this-black-friday</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<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>A Coati moment, or two</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/natural-history/a-coati-moment-or-two</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent working weekend in Tucson had an unexpected furry, long-tailed highlight: on a hike up Sabino Canyon with Kate McKinnon and the other participants of her metal clay workshop, we ran into a pair of Coatis! I&#8217;d forgotten my camera, but fortunately others had theirs, and the younger coati obliged us by being visible [...]]]></description>
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