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Jan.16.2009
Near where I live there is a huge walnut tree in front of the library. One day I watched two crows detach walnuts from a branch and fly down with them to the street. They carefully placed the walnuts and then retired to the side walk, both pacing up and down and keeping an eye on "their...
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Jan.03.2009
Here in sunny Baja Sur, Mexico the internet is everywhere. However, it is not always working!
The sun, the wind and the beach are the focus of us gringos who venture into Baja but everyone wants to be connected too! So the locals have responded by getting internet bounced off the stars...
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Dec.23.2008
Think about worms first.
Right now, this very minute, worms around the world are eating things that we can’t use and converting them into fertile soil, (thank you Jon Young for that image).
Worms are a very cool miracle. But do we think of them very often? Probably not. Last night at a friend’s...
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Dec.09.2008
As I sit in an urban cafe where they have internet access I am shocked at the distracting energy of all these people.
I have, due to a family emergency, been stopped in San Diego for a week waiting for Mike to fly back here and join me in our journey. As I spend my days here I realize how...
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Dec.05.2008
Their main concerns are things we don't think about, like the steepness and security of a rocky high place.
Bears everywhere in the northern hemisphere are getting ready for the weather to make it impossible for them to eat by retiring to dens to wait out winter. While they are doing this, events...
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Nov.28.2008
. . . nope, by the tenth of the month I had 29,000 words or so . . then life came in. I got asked to do a one person art show in the Hood River Library for the month of December and my artwork was all over the place . . had to gather it up, reframe, frame, price and mark all those paintings and...
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Nov.04.2008
This story owns me. I do not own it.
It has taken a hold of me like a puppy with a slipper and I have been writing non-stop since Saturday and now have about 15,000 words. Once in a while I stop to eat but this thing is writing itself. . how long was it in there fighting to get out? Gotta get...
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Oct.30.2008
Why not? It's hunting season and I have to stay out of my favorite places in the woods anyway so why not write a 50,000 word novel in one month!
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Oct.18.2008
“What are YOU looking at?”
“I am looking at you,” I said.
“Well don’t.”
“You are an interesting person,” I ventured.
“What do you mean?”
Ah, I think to myself, a glimmer of humanity, if only quick curiosity.
“Well, like all the rest of us have had to, you are becoming an adult and your...
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Oct.05.2008
This is a market campaign for a self published book that all authors could benefit from seeing. . totally inovative and compelling. Check it out at
http://blog.coyotesguide.com/?p=91
Let me know if you are compelled to buy the book as well. Linda
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Sep.25.2008
The tracks were all there on the ground in front of me.
I wanted to go to the high meadows so much after a long drive and a bike ride that I denied what I was seeing laid out in the road in front of me. The back road I was riding is legally closed to cars so when I saw fresh tire tracks I told...
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Sep.22.2008
Spiders and carpenter ants are more numerous in my neighborhood this year. Carefully watching the habitat that is our yard has yielded some observations that may be related to the proliferation of bugs.
My first observation was a pair of robins who returned in the spring to make a nest right...
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Sep.15.2008
The Plein Air writers read their works last night. Variety was the word the readings evoked.
Some wrote poems, got flashes from the past or impressions of the scenes. Some were very serious examining painfult parts of life and others were celebratory of the moment. After hearing everyone...
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Sep.07.2008
There are eleven different kinds of huckleberries and the varieties grow close to each other.
Some of them are sweet at different times of the season so sampling a bush before you harvest it is mandatory. The ones I like best are a shinny plum color and grow on bushes with a red tint to the leaves...
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Sep.02.2008
I just spent four days with the Pacific Northwest Plein Air Competition 2008 as a writer.
The deal was twelve of us writers signed up to be a part of the exhibition. We traveled to the suggested spots around the Columbia Gorge where the painters were painting outside and we were to complete two 500...
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About Linda
Linda Jo Hunter worked as lead guide and assistant manager of Redoubt Bay Lodge in Alaska for four summer seasons. She has taken thousands of people to observe brown bears in their natural habitat. As a tracker and naturalist, she has been particularly...
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