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		<title>After Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Significant rain in July is uncommon, and we picked up inches and inches&#8211;after the very dry spring and early summer, this was a relief to us and to everything that lives on the place.
Switchgrass head-high in July
The switchgrass was already tall, reaching deep moisture from last winter&#8217;s rains, but the July rains gave it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1161</link>
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		<title>Strange Cousins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today when hanging up the wash, I spotted something small on the end of a clothespin that was hanging upside down from the line.   It was the same mottled dull gray-brown as the clothespin itself, and it was between the V of the angled ends.  I carefully removed the clothespin from the line and put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1156</link>
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		<title>Dragonflies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, after the rains of the past two weeks&#8211;and then a hot sunny midday&#8211;we had more species of odonates at the lily pond than I&#8217;ve seen yet this year.   And the males all wanted a landing site on this stick:
At the top (for the moment) is a Roseate Skimmer, Orthemis ferruginea, and below it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1144</link>
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		<title>More Pond Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I went out yesterday about noon, I found four of these lovely pink waterlily flowers open:
The year we built the lily pond, we put in three waterlilies: a pink, a white, and a yellow.   Last year, when we cleaned out the overgrowth (of iris and lilies both) they weren&#8217;t in bloom, and I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1130</link>
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		<title>Death in the Afternoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We had thunder and rain this afternoon for several hours, but around six, sun broke through enough to illuminate the newly refilled lily pond.  I went out to see what was going on with pondlife.   Two male Neon Skimmers, Libellula croceipennis, were harrassing  the four or five male Blue Dashers, Pachydiplax longipennis, and also pestering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1116</link>
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		<title>Migration and Pollution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we are over two-hundred straight-line miles from the Gulf, we are smack dab in the middle of the Central Flyway, by which birds pass north and south from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds.   So with the first news of the oil gusher in the Gulf, my thoughts leaped past the wildlife present [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1109</link>
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		<title>Carbon Sequestration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon sequestration is the trapping of atmospheric carbon (carbon dioxide) into some form where it can stay for decades.    Carbon sequestration occurs naturally by the actions of plants, especially long-lived vegetation, and in certain soils, where it&#8217;s deposited as slow-decaying organic matter.   Plants use sunlight to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into the chemical that make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1107</link>
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		<title>More Prairie Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few pictures from a week ago,  May 30, and also from yesterday, June 5, as what&#8217;s blooming and in what abundance changes rapidly&#8211;especially in the hot, dry weather we&#8217;re having.  (We did get 3/10 of an inch of rain.   It barely wet the ground.)
Variegated Fritillary, Euptoita claudia, on Gaillardia
The gaillardia were already past peak [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1093</link>
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		<title>Prairie Flowers (partial)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Near Meadow: Claspleaf Coneflower and Lemon Horsemint
Our prairie restoration project, though small, still encompasses several micro-habitats&#8211;deeper and shallower soils, moister and dryer areas,  different uses of the land before we got it that changed what remnant seeds were there, what could come back.   The Near Meadow has several just in a couple of acres, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1079</link>
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		<title>One Flower, Many Critters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The basketflower, Centaurea americana, looks much like a thistle at first&#8230;but the stem and leaves are not prickly at all.    It&#8217;s a favorite of Black Swallowtail butterflies (and Giant Swallowtails, if there&#8217;s enough moisture for the flowers to last into summer) and many smaller butterflies.  And also other insects.
Beetle flying toward Basketflower already occupied by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/?p=1069</link>
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