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		<title>The Sum of Quiet Abundance</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/05/29/the-sum-of-quiet-abundance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butterflies and Moths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an audio version of &#8216;The Sum of Quiet Abundance&#8217; click the play button. Insects are contagious, both in their profusion and appeal. In the cool hours of early spring they are few and far between, like solitary wanderers striking out across a desert. A roving ground beetle might rise into view, clambering with slow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2507&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Dragonfly</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Scarce swallowtail, Iphiclides podalirius</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Comma butterfly (look for the spider leg hitched over the abdomen...)</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Dabs of colour</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Mother Shipton moth, Callistege mi</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Beetles on wild iris</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Climbing high</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lackey moth caterpillar</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Inside a wild iris</media:title>
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		<title>An Uncertain Country</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/05/05/an-uncertain-country/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/05/05/an-uncertain-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 09:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habitat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;An Uncertain Country&#8217; click the play button To near the coast in April is to stray into uncertain country. At times a hot sun bathes the orange groves until they glow. Then the lashing rains return, hurled by the wind across the hills like ragged grey sheets. Mist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2481&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Marsh asphodel</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Kalamas wetlands</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sagiada house</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Arches</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">House of vines</media:title>
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		<title>First Things</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/03/19/first-things/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/03/19/first-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Butterflies and Moths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prespa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildflowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildflowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;First Things&#8217; click the play button You hear the long, quavering call of a blackbird and open the window, stiff after the swelling snow. The song slips inside, spins and swirls for a few moments, and then steals you from the room. Standing outside, warmth lilts about your fingers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2442&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water Music</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/02/10/water-music/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/02/10/water-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prespa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The earth has its voices and songs. It has its own languages crafted over millennia through slow and patient processes, its dialects peculiar to geological regions or areas of weather, to places of particular precipitation. The earth has its voices and songs just as we have our own, a music born of place, notes threaded together by winds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2385&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Winter, towards Albania</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lesser Prespa Lake, winter</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Out on the ice, Lesser Prespa Lake</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Reeds on ice</media:title>
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		<title>A Winter World</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/01/19/a-winter-world/</link>
		<comments>http://julian-hoffman.com/2012/01/19/a-winter-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prespa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowflakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson A. Bentley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To one who lives in the snow and watches it day by day, it is a book to be read. The pages turn as the wind blows; the characters shift and the images formed by their combinations change in meaning…It is a shadow language, spoken by things that have gone and will come again. ~ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2338&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Julian Hoffman</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://julianhoffman.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/img_3423-1.jpg?w=245" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">A Winter World</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A line of snow, a line of sky</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://julianhoffman.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/img_2431-2.jpg?w=500" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Winter wonderland</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://julianhoffman.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/p1071109-1.jpg?w=500" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Seedhead in snow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Garden under snow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">River of ice</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Glittering</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Walnut in snow</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Wilson A. Bentley, via Wikipedia Commons</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Bentley&#039;s snowflake photos, 1902, via Wikipedia Commons.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">After the snow, the light</media:title>
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		<title>Glimpsed, In Passing: 2011</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/12/28/glimpsed-in-passing-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’d be quite right in thinking that this isn’t part two of our journey to Szczecin in Poland. And rather than have you looking for it, or wondering whether I’ve deleted the subtitle of the previous post and therefore the obligation to write a follow-up, I’ll confess to not having written it. Not yet anyways. Much of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2302&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Great Prespa Lake</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lizard orchid, Himantoglossum hircinum</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Beehives</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Turkish village, Greece</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Eagle owl</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Evros Delta House</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Balkan marbled white, Melanargia larissa</media:title>
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		<title>A Family Affair: Szczecin, pt.1</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/11/29/a-family-affair-szczecin-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To listen to an audio version of &#8216;A Family Affair&#8217; click the play button &#8220;All origins become mysterious if we search far enough into the past. And almost all peoples, when we look at their earliest origins, turn out to have come from somewhere else.&#8221; -Noel Malcolm, Kosovo: A Short History A fierce north wind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2182&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Family Affair</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Shipyards, 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ships &#38; Cranes</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Painting of Stettin, by Georg Braun 1594</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Szczecin overview</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ships, 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Boats, 1936</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Harbour cranes, 2010</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Cranes</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Pepsi, 2010</media:title>
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		<title>Crossing Paths</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/11/04/crossing-paths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain exquisite experiences in the natural world arise because of the precise alignment of unpredictable paths. We can never know exactly where and when they’ll occur, if at all, and that, perhaps, is the very essence of their charm. Other than being out on the land as often as possible, I know of no way to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2152&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Crossing of Paths</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Willows</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Riders of the storm</media:title>
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		<title>Gathering In</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/18/gathering-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sun passes lower in the sky, bringing the quickening rush that starts the long winter months. Tresses of drying peppers spread like flames across sheds, turning the stone walls into scenes of tropical design. The elegant stems of onions that have spoked all summer above the swelling bulbs are plaited, woven together like hands in a dance, and hung out of the way of snow. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2128&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith in a Forgotten Place</title>
		<link>http://julian-hoffman.com/2011/10/04/faith-in-a-forgotten-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>julianhoffman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where there are borders, there are bridges.&#8221; I&#8217;d been researching a cross-border eco-tourism project on the Albanian side of the lake when Myrsini Malakou, director of the Society for the Protection of Prespa, suddenly said this during an interview. Her words crystalized for me a vague idea that I&#8217;d been carrying around throughout the time I&#8217;d spent in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=julian-hoffman.com&#038;blog=12569504&#038;post=2072&#038;subd=julianhoffman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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