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	<title>Three Star Owl - Functional and Sculptural Clay Artwork with a Natural History &#187; three star owl</title>
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		<title>Willcox at eye level</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the Sandhill cranes, I usually visit Willcox in the winter.  That&#8217;s when the town hosts Wings Over Willcox, a birding and cultural event celebrating the cold season presence of Sandhill cranes, who dwell in the fields and wetlands of the Sulphur Springs Valley from October to March.  (below, Stewart St. in Willcox AZ.  Photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crane-o-rama!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Sandhill cranes winter in the fields and wetlands of far southeastern Arizona each year, and they have their own festival: Wings Over Willcox, held in mid-January by the historical community of Willcox, AZ. This year is the 19th Annual WOW Festival, and it&#8217;s part of SE Arizona&#8217;s celebration of the state [...]]]></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>
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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>
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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>Categorical gory detail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most readers probably follow this blog by reading day-to-day, post-to-post as new entries are uploaded &#8212; I appreciate that: thanks for reading!  Here&#8217;s another way to view the Three Star Owl journal &#8212; by categories. In case you haven&#8217;t noticed them, categories are the long list of words partway down the left-hand side-bar.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drawn in: The Curious Case of the Owl in the Notebook</title>
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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>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>
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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>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>Mess-o&#8217;-Owls (with a serious side-bar)</title>
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		<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>Baked clay</title>
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		<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>Migratory cephalopods&#8230;</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>Owl? What owl?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/owl-what-owl</link>
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		<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>Just a reminder from Three Star Owl</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/just-a-reminder-from-three-star-owl</link>
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		<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>Where are the Owl Hives?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/where-are-the-owl-hives</link>
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		<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>Three Star Owl, Updated events</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-updated-events</link>
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		<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>
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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>Oh say can you KIK&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/oh-say-can-you-kik</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;by the dawnzerly light?
&#60;&#60; Here&#8217;s one of the local Cooper&#8217;s hawks preening in the pre-dawn light above my tent &#8220;office&#8221;.  Every morning at EXACTLY 5:48 by the alarm clock, the pair begins their day by skrekking KIK a couple of solo kiks, then rolling out a long stream of duo kik kik kik kik kik [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The delights of urban camping</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/the-delights-of-urban-camping</link>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<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>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.
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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>Cranky Owlet unexpectedly undergoes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-unexpectedly-undergoes</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-unexpectedly-undergoes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a drastic chromatic aberration.

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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>Cranky Owlet is definitely feeling&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-is-definitely</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-is-definitely#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8230;. a little frazzled today.
 
 
 
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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>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>Cold wet studio mess</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cold-wet-studio-mess</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cold-wet-studio-mess#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s frequently said about the desert that there&#8217;s two ways to get into trouble in it: not enough water, and too much water.  This train of big winter storms has definitely proved the latter.
Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be drying out the studio which, being the informal structure it is, has many leaks and moisture-retaining properties, and has [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/winging-over-to-willcox#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/many-thanks-to-everyone#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/a-peek-at-the-new-guys#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<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>More coati moments</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/more-coati-moments</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/more-coati-moments#comments</comments>
		<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>Frankly, Cranky Owlet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/frankly-cranky-owlet</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/frankly-cranky-owlet#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;finds songbirds a nuisance.

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		<title>What is this animal?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-is-this-animal</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/what-is-this-animal#comments</comments>
		<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>Cranky Owlet on Facebook</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-on-facebook</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-on-facebook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you can follow Three Star Owl, me, and Cranky Owlet on Facebook.  Just click on the Facebook icon to the right, and friend &#8220;Cranky Owlet&#8221;.  Or, if you&#8217;re not already on Facebook, join to friend Cranky Owlet.

Cranky Owlet says, &#8220;Friend me!&#8221;

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		<title>Studio assistant</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/studio-assistant</link>
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		<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>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>Help finding Maureen!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/help-finding-maureen</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/help-finding-maureen#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are Maureen M. who emailed me recently about Horned Lizard bowls, I&#8217;ve been trying to reply but your email address won&#8217;t work.  If you&#8217;re Maureen, or know Maureen, please send me an alternate email address or a phone number so I can get in touch with you.
(Photo A.Shock)
]]></description>
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		<title>Many thanks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/many-thanks</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/many-thanks#comments</comments>
		<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.
]]></description>
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		<title>Howdy from Sierra Vista, Arizona</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/howdy-from-sierra-vista-arizona</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/howdy-from-sierra-vista-arizona#comments</comments>
		<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>Website issues &#8212; Communications breakdown&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/website-issues-communications-breakdown</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/website-issues-communications-breakdown#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a little bit.
¡Hola everyone!
It&#8217;s been brought to my attention that some people are having problems emailing me through the Contacts page.  The problem is being worked on right now (and most people aren&#8217;t having any problems) so start on the Contacts page if you&#8217;re trying to get in touch.  If that&#8217;s not working for you, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/sneak-preview-of-southwest-wings-assortment#comments</comments>
		<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>Cranky Owlet has elevated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-has-elevated</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-has-elevated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;crankiness to an artform.

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		<title>Have a Javelina, or two</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/have-a-javelina-or-two</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/have-a-javelina-or-two#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/o-the-wonder-that-is-short-alls#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#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>Constellation Alien Invader Roadkill&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/constellation-alien-invader-roadkill</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/constellation-alien-invader-roadkill#comments</comments>
		<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>Gamboling Gambel&#8217;s Quailets</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/gamboling-gambels-quailets</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/gamboling-gambels-quailets#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/intense-clay-overload-in-a-good-way-nceca-phoenix#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/half-dome-head-the-geology-of-owl-crania</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/half-dome-head-the-geology-of-owl-crania#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Increments: Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy FINAL Finale</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-final-finale</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-final-finale#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned previously, there are two pieces of mine in the NCECA &#8220;Potters as Sculptors; Sculptors as Potters&#8221; show currently up at Mesa Community College (see the Three Star Owl Events page for details).  One of them is the long-evolving &#8220;Toadstack&#8221; (the other is Venomosity which can currently be viewed on the Home page.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidification: Cloacal dexterity is next to godliness</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/nidification-cloacal-dexterity-is-next-to-godliness</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/nidification-cloacal-dexterity-is-next-to-godliness#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Anna&#8217;s Hummingbird Hen&#8217;s behavior has mystified me for the last few days.  What I see when the Hen is gone: an empty nest, no nestling activity (after that first exciting view).  Then when the Hen returns, she immediately sits tight; no feeding.  Wouldn&#8217;t you expect her to return and feed nestlings, if there were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unapologetic peddling of excellent objects: Three Star Owl Magnets &#8212; Everyone needs some!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/unapologetic-peddling-of-excellent-objects-three-star-owl-magnets-everyone-needs-some</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/unapologetic-peddling-of-excellent-objects-three-star-owl-magnets-everyone-needs-some#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And they&#8217;re not just for birders.
Brightly colored, biologically faithful yet spirited portraits of native birds, reptiles, and mammals, Three Star Owl Magnets will stick firmly to your fridge or your uncle&#8217;s steel cranial plate.  Celebrate a life-bird, a yard-bird, or a favorite bird, insect, reptile, amphibian or mammal &#8212; if I don&#8217;t have it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increments: Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy finale (almost)</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-finale-almost</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/increments-stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-finale-almost#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final increments of the imperturbable Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy (or Toadstack for short) have been completed, and after months of being alternately obsessed on and ignored, left alone and detailed, the piece is finished and ready for its destination.  Here are its last two phases: a final coat of white terra sigillata (super-fine suspension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet occasionally incubates&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-occasionally-incubates</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-occasionally-incubates#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;peevish thoughts.
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		<title>From the San Diego Bird Festival</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/from-the-san-diego-bird-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late post (Sunday 8 March 2009): 
Hello from San Diego, where today is the last day of the San Diego Audubon Bird Festival.  Things have been busy here, and I haven&#8217;t had a chance to post until now.  The Festival is at the Marina Conference Center right on Mission Bay &#8212; here&#8217;s a shot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego Audubon Bird Festival</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/san-diego-audubon-bird-festival</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the week of the San Diego Birding Festival at the Marina Conference Center right on Mission Bay.  The keynote speaker will be David Allen Sibley, the artist and author of the Sibley field guides to the birds of North America, which are considered some of the top field guides available.  Many of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stacked toad teapot effigy and the mathematics of artistic license</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-and-the-mathematics-of-artistic-license</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-teapot-effigy-and-the-mathematics-of-artistic-license#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy is alive and well, so far.
After languishing at the back of a shelf in the studio for many weeks wrapped in damp paper towels and layers and layers of plastic film, the Stacked Toad Teapot Effigy has finally been fully sculpted and is drying, awaiting further surface treatment (terra sigillata [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One last Sarcoramphus peek&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/one-last-sarcoramphus-peek</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/one-last-sarcoramphus-peek#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;just because this photo of Jack&#8217;s King vulture waiting to be taken home makes me laugh.

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		<title>Bonus pervious nostril!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/bonus-pervious-nostril</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working hard on pieces for the San Diego Audubon Birding Festival, which is coming right up.  While glazing a wall tile with the portrait of a male Surf scoter and looking at photo resources of scoters, I realized I was being treated to another pervious nostril!
It doesn&#8217;t show so much in this photo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl is Guest Blogger on Birdchick.com!</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/three-star-owl-is-guest-blogger-on-birdchickcom</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/three-star-owl-is-guest-blogger-on-birdchickcom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news!  Sharon Stiteler of Birdchick.com fame ran a contest for guest-bloggers while she&#8217;s out of the country, and Three Star Owl is her selection for Friday&#8217;s guest post!  Regular Three Star Owl readers will recognize the entry as a post from this web journal, Vertical Napping Bark, which is one of my favorites because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increments: Color me vulture, finally</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/increments-color-me-vulture-finally</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/increments-color-me-vulture-finally#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the exciting final steps of Jack&#8217;s King Vulture.  (Previous increments can be viewed and read about here.)

This first photo, Increment 3, is a close-up of what the piece looks like after it&#8217;s been bisqued (fired the first time) and then glazed. Pretty crappy looking, isn&#8217;t it?  That&#8217;s because glaze is a chalky-looking liquid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P.S. &#8212; Cardinals do not have yellow bills</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/ps-cardinals-do-not-have-yellow-bills</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/ps-cardinals-do-not-have-yellow-bills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a red subject for Valentine&#8217;s Weekend:
In Phoenix there are cardinals.
Everybody knows the football Cardinals, aka &#8220;the Redbirds&#8221;, who  nearly won the Superbowl recently.  But fewer people, even native Arizonans, know that we also have real Northern cardinals, (Cardinalis cardinalis), aka cardenal comun.  You can&#8217;t imagine how surprised some people are when they find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet has no words&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-has-no-words</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-has-no-words#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8230;to describe his devotion to vole
(for lunch)
Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!!
VOLE = LOVE
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		<title>Increments: Color me vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), plus a quick field trip to Belize</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/increments-color-me-vulture-sarcoramphus-papa-plus-a-quick-field-trip-to-belize</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/increments-color-me-vulture-sarcoramphus-papa-plus-a-quick-field-trip-to-belize#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another reason I&#8217;ve had vultures on the brain is because I owe a friend a vulture.  Specifically, a king vulture, Sarcoramphus papa, the largest of the Cathartids, the New World Vultures.  They are the largest vulture in our hemisphere if you don&#8217;t count the two condors, and they are striking birds (literally &#8212; I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pervious nostril: why vultures don&#8217;t need kleenex</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-pervious-nostril-why-vultures-dont-need-kleenex</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/the-pervious-nostril-why-vultures-dont-need-kleenex#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent feature of Turkey vultures is see-through nostrils.  That is, they lack a septum, so the opening to their sinuses goes straight through the top of their beak. This is handy for an organism which eats its meals with its head in the liquescent innards of dead things. With just a quick sneeze, any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enter the Vulture</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/enter-the-vulture</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vulture blew up in a bisque kiln yesterday.  Dang!  And it was my own fault, too, a foolish, neophyte error: its body was hollow, and I forgot to make a hole in it for the hot air inside to escape, kerPOW.  The carnage is visible, right.  Fortunately, nothing else in the kiln was harmed.
Vultures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet doesn&#8217;t believe&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-doesnt-believe</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-doesnt-believe#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;that migration is quite the thing.
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		<title>Greetings from Willcox</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/greetings-from-willcox</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fortunately, I was able to hook up with V on her scouting trip this morning, and this is where we went: the dawn lift-off of Sandhill cranes just south of the town of Willcox, AZ.
Above is a photo of a small fraction of the cranes flying out from the ice-crusted ponds where they spent the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl at Wings Over Willcox</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-wings-over-willcox</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you within range of southeastern Arizona, consider visiting the annual Wings Over Willcox Nature Festival this weekend.  Held in the historic community of Willcox, this event celebrates the yearly return of tens of thousands of Sandhill cranes to the Sulphur Springs Valley in southeastern Arizona.  The rich Chihuahuan desertscrub and grasslands are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Year&#8217;s thanks to many friends&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/old-years-thanks-to-many-friends</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/old-years-thanks-to-many-friends#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;family and clients who enjoy, enhance, and support Three Star Owl.
Especially to two friends who generously shared their time, creativity, and expertise to make Three Star Owl a better artistic enterprise in ways I couldn&#8217;t have managed on my own.
Thanks to Jack Follett who made wonderful copper shelving for portable displays at Three Star Owl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cranky Owlet fervently invokes&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-fervently-invokes</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-fervently-invokes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace on Earth!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from Three Star Owl
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		<title>Cranky Owlet seems to get&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-seems-to-get</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/cranky-owlet-seems-to-get#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;bigger all the time.
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		<title>Today Cranky Owlet&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/three-star-owl/today-cranky-owlet</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;feels especially cranky.

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		<title>Close in &#8212; tiny mud pot forms on wall</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/close-in-tiny-mud-pot-forms-on-wall#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I find a clay pot &#8212; a tiny, perfect clay pot &#8212; on the wall of the house.  They look like little half-buried Mediterranean amphorae, without handles, with a narrow neck and a flared rim, the entire thing only half an inch across.  But they have no openings: like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Star Owl at Audubon Arizona&#8217;s Gifts from Nature benefit sale</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-audubon-arizonas-gifts-from-nature-benefit-sale</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/events/three-star-owl-at-audubon-arizonas-gifts-from-nature-benefit-sale#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend is Audubon Arizona&#8217;s fundraiser, Gifts from Nature, and Three Star Owl will be there with a selection of new and classic items for you to check out.  Come by and say Hi!  The details are on the flyer below!  Hope to see you there&#8230;

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		<title>Stacked Toad effigy vessel part 3, also why is a toad not a frog?</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-effigy-vessel-part-3-also-why-is-a-toad-not-a-frog</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/stacked-toad-effigy-vessel-part-3-also-why-is-a-toad-not-a-frog#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art/clay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effigy vessels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reptiles and amphibians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There have been many delays and distractions for the Stacked Toad Effigy Teapot: computer failure and restoration, other deadlines, and Thanksgiving, including a tragic Saguaro Plunge, details to be posted later.
But here is the next phase: the &#8220;lid&#8221; of the &#8220;teapot&#8221; is in place, and also the &#8220;finial&#8221; (knob), with Hector Halfsquid for scale.
This involved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yard list &#8212; Miss Thang</title>
		<link>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-miss-thang</link>
		<comments>http://threestarowl.com/art/yard-list-miss-thang#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birding]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[close in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etymology/words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[three star owl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yard list]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Miss Thang.  She is a female Costa&#8217;s hummingbird (Calypte costae), and unlike her purple-mustachioed male counterpart, she&#8217;s a plain green-gray above, and a plain gray-white below, with a chunky round body, almost no tail, and no neck at all.  She holds territory right outside our front door, as Queen of the Desert Garden.  The [...]]]></description>
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