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Burning of sorts metaphorical and otherwise
By Chris Clarke on 2011 07 19 at 4:40:40 pm | 1 comment | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x97d
The day before yesterday Annette and I took the Jeep up into the hills, found ourselves a shady spot in a jumble of boulders in Joshua Tree National Park. It was deliciously cool, perhaps as low as 95 degrees, and ash-throated flycatchers raised
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Fire
By Chris Clarke on 2009 09 04 at 3:33:53 pm | 1 commentThe largest fire in Los Angeles County history was apparently set on purpose.
Outside the fire zone itself, the result downwind is still dramatic and deadly. Even as far away as Northern Arizona, the results of the fire are what you might call
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Mountains, ardent
By Chris Clarke on 2009 09 02 at 10:22:38 pm | 2 commentsIt was somewhere around Mendota that I saw the hawks, a dozen of them, in a mixed flight of ravens around a stand of eucalyptus. The hills to the west were glowing, their sculpted structure plain in the slanted light. The Raven asked why the hills
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Beauty
By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 01 at 1:05:37 am | 0 comments
It is raining, a little. The wind off the little storm front brings the temperature down to a positively comfortable level. It’s almost cool. Not even 80°, and the scent of wet juniper and rock hangs in the air.
How long has it been since I’d
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