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Lost and Ancient Archives
By Chris Clarke on 2011 01 16 at 3:08:59 pm | 5 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x2ocIn May 2008, as long-time readers of this blog know, I left the San Francisco Bay Area where I had lived for a quarter century and moved to the Mojave Desert. I remember the next month through a bit of a veil. There was a lot of work hauling
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The Moth and Me #1
By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 15 at 7:09:48 pm | 0 commentsThe current post over at the North American Backyard Moths Backyard Inventory blog is the inaugural edition of The Moth and Me, which, in the words of the founders, is:
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Letters from the desert: Hawkmoths
By Chris Clarke on 2008 07 30 at 1:53:23 am | 0 commentsIn September I sat near here for three days watching a cloud of butterflies move through the desert. There were desert swallowtails, millions of them in yellow and black pursuing anything red or orange through the Joshua trees, including the
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Letters from the desert: My home for the summer
By Chris Clarke on 2008 07 25 at 12:10:46 am | 0 commentsThe house I’m living in for the summer is sufficient to my needs, for the most part. It keeps desert dust out of my eyes when I sleep. It provides a bit of privacy from my neighbors and holds up a few strategically positioned water pipes.
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