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	<description>a fish trapped inside the wind*</description>
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		<title>The Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write personal essay. I write to find out how I feel about something, an aspiration I learned from the poet May Sarton. I sometimes picture myself as a grizzled prospector leading a forlorn, burdened donkey into the trackless waste &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/the-writer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dec. 5, 2011: Annadel State Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I start uphill from the Carissa Avenue entrance, I spy two large, handsome acorn woodpeckers poking around in a valley oak full of acorn holes, some filled, some empty. I have chosen a sunny, breezy day, silent except for &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/dec-5-2011-annadel-state-park/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>October 27, 2011: Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; On a bright, sunny, perfect fall morning my friend Gay and I set out for a hike in the steep wooded hills just outside Guerneville. We parked near the visitor center where there is no fee. Several groups of &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/october-27-2011-armstrong-redwoods-state-natural-reserve/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>October 6 to 9, 2011: Cowpokes, Soldiers, and Saints</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Hills]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lone Pine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first weekend in October my friend Sonja and I did something we had never before contemplated doing&#8212;we attended a cowboy film festival in Lone Pine, California. We aren&#39;t particularly crazy about old horse operas, but we are mad about &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/october-6-to-9-2011-cowpokes-soldiers-and-saints/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>August 10, 2011: Sky Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Point Reyes National Seashore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sky Trail is lovely today, lush green under a cloudless blue firmament. A gentle breeze makes for perfect hiking weather. The trail has become quite overgrown with ferns, elderberry, blackberry, huckleberry, and&#8212;watsonias. Watsonia is a South African bulb&#8212;a garden escapee &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/august-10-2011-sky-trail/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>May, 2011: Down East</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; More than one person warned me on hearing about my impending visit to Maine. &#34;Watch out for all those creepy people and evil goings-on in the woods.&#34; And they looked at me as if I should understand what eeriness &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/may-2011-down-east/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>June 13, 2011: Tomales Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June is bustin&#39; out all over, and nowhere is it bustin&#39; out more than at Tomales Point, the northernmost extension of Point Reyes National Seashore (it follows alongside Tomales Bay, under which the San Andreas Fault sleeps). Last year yellow &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/june-13-2011-tomales-point/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>April 26, 2011: The Bad and the Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://janemerryman.com/april-26-2011-the-bad-and-the-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I did my favorite spring walk, the Horse Trail&#8211;Old Pine Trail Loop at Point Reyes National Seashore. I wrote about the loop on Dec. 13, 2010, but at this time of year it is a totally different experience. Beautiful &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/april-26-2011-the-bad-and-the-beautiful/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty-Eight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carrizo Plain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highways can be crowded, confusing, and boring. They can be icons and legendary. I recently traveled a highway that in a few hundred miles passes through a cross section of the history, geography, and culture of California, and I&#39;m certain &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/fifty-eight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>February 28, 2011: Bayview–Fire Lane Loop, Point Reyes National Seashore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have hiked this loop of about eight miles many times over the years, in all seasons, and it never ceases to offer something wonderful. The end of February is that time, that in-between time, between winter (such as it &#8230; <a href="http://janemerryman.com/february-28-2011-bayview%e2%80%93fire-lane-loop-point-reyes-national-seashore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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