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		<title>Art Prints and Posters are Showing Up in Homes and Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not everyone can afford to buy original art. This has really upped the popularity of good Art Prints and Posters.  In fact many people are now amassing collections of posters.
Beautifully done prints on canvas or on paper can make as big an impact in a room as an original work of art and at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car Jacking</title>
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		<title>Rafting the Rio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wild and Scenic describes the Rio Grande River of northern New Mexico. The Rio thunders in the depths of a precipitious gorge boxed in by sheer cliffs and has plenty of white knuckle rapids to excite and thrill rafters like us. If you are looking for an early morning rush (other than traffic) this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golfing with Coatimundies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were in Mexico recently and had the occassion to play golf at a course  near Playa de Carmen. You never know what wildlife you may encounter on a golf course in Mexico. Always Iguanas,



Big guy Iguana


but we have also seen alligators sunning on the edge of the water hazzard beside the fairway. That can be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming with Giants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before last year, I had never heard of  Whale Sharks. They are the biggest fish on earth.  A true shark, it is nonetheless a harmless plankton-eating machine. They migrate through the Mexican Rivera during August- September as they head down to their breeding grounds in Belize. In the area near Cancun you can swim with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View From A Mule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Grand Canyon is a vast and amazing place, unlike anywhere else I&#8217;ve ever seen. To see it atop a mule is truly high adventure.
We got up early for the two hour drive to the Bright Angel Lodge at the Grand Canyon where the mule ride originates. It was still dark when we arrived, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Aerial Nature Walk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently returned from a fun hot air ballooning adventure in Sedona, Arizona.  Our pilot  picked us up at 5 a.m. and drove us to the launch site out in the middle of the desert. The sky was black and just beginning to turn gray as the ground crew began to lay out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walnut Canyon Cliff Dwellings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband, Mike, and I recently traveled to Arizona with our son and his family. One of the fascinating places we visited was the Walnut Canyon National  Monument. The Sinagua people lived here from about A.D. 1125 to 1250. Sinagua is Spanish for &#8220;without water&#8221;. They were young people, hardly anyone lived past 40. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Bees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were having the shrubbery around the house trimmed the other day the yardman called our attention to a swarm of bees that had found a way into the eves of our house. He told us they were inside the wall and that we needed an exterminator or we could be facing some extensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater Camp</title>
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campers at work



For the past two weeks I have been teaching art at a theater camp for kids, as I have done for the past six years.  The camp was located in a lovely local park under tree cover.  The fresh air and sunshine energized
the kids. I had two groups each of 17 very enthusiastic kids.
All of [...]]]></description>
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