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    <title>Lifescapes</title>
    
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    <updated>2009-12-16T12:30:26-06:00</updated>
    <subtitle>Notes about writing, landscape, and life in the Texas Hill Country</subtitle>
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        <title>Valley in snow</title>
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        <published>2009-12-16T12:30:26-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-16T12:30:26-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="New Mexico" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Oliver La Farge" />
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    <content type="html">This is the view from the deck of our cabin, looking down toward the little Rio Manuelitas and across to...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Snow scene</title>
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        <published>2009-12-13T11:07:56-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-13T11:07:56-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="New Mexico" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="The Writing Process" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Mourning Gloria" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Pendaries" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Story Circle Online Classes" />
        


    <content type="html">The view from my writing loft, in last week's blizzard. The big snowfall came on Tuesday, maybe 18", but it...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Cabin in the snow</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5aee53ef0128761f768b970c</id>
        <published>2009-12-06T10:29:47-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-06T14:47:53-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="New Mexico" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Barbara Kingsolver" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Hermit's Peak" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Mourning Gloria" />
        


    <content type="html">This is where I am for the next month or so. A small log house perched on a mountain slope...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Snow in the mountains</title>
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        <published>2009-12-03T09:59:22-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-03T10:03:07-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="New Mexico" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="John Kabat-Zinn" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Mourning Gloria" />
        


    <content type="html">We woke up this morning to eigh inches of fresh powder snow, a skier's dream--and still snowing. Ten degrees, so...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Sunrise in the Sangres</title>
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        <published>2009-11-22T10:58:37-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-22T11:12:05-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="New Mexico" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Barbara Kingsolver" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Mourning Gloria" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Small Wonder" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Stories from the Heart" />
        


    <content type="html">Sunrise in the Sangres, always an astonishment in the morning, no matter how often I see it. Outdoors, it is...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Lantana: In bloom this week</title>
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        <published>2009-11-14T13:30:22-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-14T13:30:22-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="China and friends" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Dailiness" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Brenda Ueland" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Lantana" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Meadow Knoll" />
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    <content type="html">One of our prettiest natives: Lantana horrida. "Horrid"because of its strong scent, the toxicity of its blue-black berries, the thorny...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Copper canyon daisy: In bloom this week</title>
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        <published>2009-11-06T09:51:04-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-06T09:57:35-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="A Greener Life" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Flowers, Weeds, and Other Green Gifts" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Copper canyon daisy" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="El Nino" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Jorge Luis Borges" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Tagetes lemmonii" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Texas Hill Country" />
        


    <content type="html">Delightful Tagetes lemmonii, or Copper canyon daisy--a tumble of bright marigold-like blossoms in the fall, a strong scent that's unforgettable...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Ripple Run: Drought notes 10</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5aee53ef0120a64b9b41970b</id>
        <published>2009-11-03T08:57:32-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-03T08:57:32-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="A Greener Life" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Out and About" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Darling Dahlias" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Peggy Turchette" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Story Circle Network" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Texas Hill Country" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Together Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place" />
        


    <content type="html">The rain is returning, at last--over eight inches for September, five for October. This is a photo of Ripple Run,...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>High Water: Drought Notes 9</title>
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        <published>2009-10-24T10:04:20-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-10-24T10:04:20-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="A Greener Life" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Climate Change Notes" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Out and About" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Holly Blues" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Susan J. Tweit" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Together Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place" />
        


    <content type="html">The drought may not be broken, but it's certainly been bent. We got 5" of rain in 24 hours--very welcome....&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Drought Notes #8: Resurrection</title>
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        <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://susanalbert.typepad.com/lifescapes/2009/10/drought-notes-7-resurrection.html" thr:count="7" thr:updated="2009-11-03T08:21:33-06:00" />
        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c5aee53ef0120a6469b03970c</id>
        <published>2009-10-17T05:48:16-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-10-24T09:03:18-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Susan Albert</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Dailiness" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Writing Projects" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Erskine Caldwell" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Holly Blues" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree" />
        


    <content type="html">I've never before seen this clematis bloom in the fall. In fact, I thought I'd lost the whole vine in...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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