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	<title>The Firefly Forest &#187; Various Links</title>
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	<description>Discovering and enjoying nature - The Firefly Forest is a combination nature journal and plant and animal species identification guide</description>
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		<title>Art Smoke Photos</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/07/28/art-smoke-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out these amazing, abstract, ethereal art smoke photographs (discovered via John Nack on Adobe):

Coloured Smoke
Flickr: The artsmoke Pool
Sensitive Light: Coloured Smoke
Lumendipity Gallery
Smoke on Flickr
underneath it all. {no doubt}
Burning Bulbs

And here are some instructions on how to create art smoke photographs:

Abstract smoke photography how-to
Lumendipity photography Blog: Smoke Experiments &#8211; how to photograph smoke

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		<title>Nature Blog Carnivals</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2007/02/02/nature-blog-carnivals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog carnivals are regularly published collections of links to blog posts on a particular topic. Here are some currently active nature-related blog carnivals:

Circus of the Spineless &#8211; A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Mollusks, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.
Festival of the Trees &#8211; The monthly blog carnival for all things arboreal.
Good Planets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Webmaster Forums</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/11/11/my-favorite-webmaster-forums/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/11/11/my-favorite-webmaster-forums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The forums at WebmasterWorld and Cre8asite Forums have a wealth of information and interesting discussion on webmaster issues, website usability, and search engine optimization or SEO (ranking better in search engines and being more appealing or &#034;clickable&#034; to search engine users).
My website has recently been having a variety of search engine problems (pages being indexed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting UV Links</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/11/07/interesting-uv-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fluorescence and occasional phosphorescence of some minerals under ultraviolet light has fascinated me since I was a child, and I now have both short-wave and long-wave UV lights and a small fluorescent mineral collection. It&#039;s fun finding different things that fluoresce&#8230; Powder laundry detergent, many types of consumer packaging, and scorpions will all fluoresce.
Here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tucson Gardening Blog</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/10/31/new-tucson-gardening-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/10/31/new-tucson-gardening-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By George! &#8211; A Blog! is an interesting new blog with weekly articles by the Tucson gardening columnist and author George Brookbank. The very first article is about growing date palms (something I&#039;ve always wanted to try).
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		<title>Southwestern Books</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/24/southwestern-books/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/24/southwestern-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in books about the Southwest, there are quite a few websites selling lesser known and often quite specialized titles. Here are a few of them:

Arizona Highways &#8211; Books
Arizona Native Plant Society &#8211; Publications
ASDM Press
The Center for Sustainable Environments at NAU
Desert Botanical Garden &#8211; Books
Museum of New Mexico Press
Native Seeds SEARCH &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazine-scrap Collage</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/19/magazine-scrap-collage/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/19/magazine-scrap-collage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cindy from the Once blog has created a wonderful collage of a Praying Mantis, and she did it by using magazine scraps, turning trash into art.
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		<title>Underwater Photo Info</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/19/underwater-photo-info/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/19/underwater-photo-info/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For information on underwater camera gear, check out this post on the nature blog Earth, Wind &#038; Water. Tai Haku&#039;s many underwater photos are fascinating and a very rare thing to see on blogs.
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		<title>Southern AZ Nature Blogs</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/03/04/southern-az-nature-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/03/04/southern-az-nature-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some nice southern Arizona nature blogs, and although each of these blogs has a different focus (bird-watching, herbalism, natural history, gardening, personal observations, photography, etc.), they are all interesting and help provide a broader perspective on southern Arizona plants and wildlife:

Aimophila Adventures
Birders On The Border
By George! &#8211; A Blog!
Cowjumping.net
Desert Medicine Woman&#039;s Plants
KL&#039;s Sonoran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Unrelated Links</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/02/10/a-few-unrelated-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#039;t want to grab some toilet paper and have this come rolling up from the back side of the roll (shudder).
Rescuing an ungrateful bat (Thankfully, the rescuer has been vaccinated against rabies).
It&#039;s a katydid birthday party!
Fantastic fungi photos.
An interesting idea about one possible cause of autism.
A villain with a head the size of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Links &#8211; Bats, Snails, and Sexual Suicide</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/16/quick-links-bats-snails-and-sexual-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/16/quick-links-bats-snails-and-sexual-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish Chef Dave has rounded up some truly wild bat photos.
History, archaeology, and of course snails can be found in this interesting post on Snail&#039;s Tales.
Information about sexual suicide, including a crossword puzzle on the subject, can be found at Wayne&#039;s Word.
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		<title>University of Arizona Webcams</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/15/university-of-arizona-webcams/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/15/university-of-arizona-webcams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it look like outside in Tucson right now? If you live here in Tucson, you can just look out the window, but if you are someplace else or stuck in a windowless workplace, the University of Arizona has three webcams (web cameras) showing the current view outside. They also have a webcam album [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Links &#8211; Consumer &amp; Camera</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/10/quick-links-consumer-camera/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/10/quick-links-consumer-camera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I love to read consumer information websites, especially those with info about bad service, bad products, good deals, evil DRM, scams and such. The Consumerist is an interesting blog with a useful mix of this sort of information.
Areas treacherous for consumers are online electronics and camera stores. Beware, some of those stores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Links</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/09/quick-links/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/09/quick-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An East African jumping spider, Evarcha culicivora, likes to drink the blood of humans and other mammals, but fortunately it doesn&#039;t get it&#039;s blood directly from the source, instead it captures blood-swollen female mosquitios and sucks the human or animal blood out of them.
Josh Simpson, a contemporary glass artist and maker of glass planet spheres, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Links</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/07/a-few-links/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/07/a-few-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Greater Arid-land Katydid&#039;s threat display is far more funny than frightening (unless you&#039;re terrified of clowns).
Eddie Breen is a very unique &#034;piggyback&#034; artist. He buys cheap, rather nondescript paintings and then adds his own painted embellishments to create colorful but totally wacky artworks. It&#039;s amusing to see the before and after photos of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assorted Weird Links</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/04/assorted-weird-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve, Don&#039;t Eat It! (Warning: Bad language and even worse &#034;food&#034;)
Scroll down on this Japanese Pizza page to see the horrifying Squid Ink Pizza.
A place I would NEVER work, especially as one of the venom milkers&#8230;  Shudder, the very thought of it makes my skin crawl. Photographing them from a safe distance with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surreal Photo-art</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/09/13/surreal-photo-art/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/09/13/surreal-photo-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered a very interesting photo-artist, Ben Goossens, through a post on the always entertaining J-Walk Blog. Ben Goossens&#039; wonderfully surrealistic photomontages remind me of the strange and fascinating art of René Magritte and Salvador Dalí.
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		<title>Animal Photos</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/08/11/animal-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/08/11/animal-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC.com has a slideshow feature called Animal Tracks with some great animal photographs. They also have an archive of past Animal Tracks.
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		<title>Landscaping with Native Plants</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/06/16/landscaping-with-native-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/06/16/landscaping-with-native-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gardening Insights, a landscape design, education, and consulting service here in Tucson, has a list of native, Tucson plants that can be used for low-care landscapes. The Tucson area has a wide variety of attractive, native plants which are available in local nurseries or may already be found growing in many people&#039;s yards.
These native plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By the Prophet of the Earth</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/05/30/by-the-prophet-of-the-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/05/30/by-the-prophet-of-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2005 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima is available for free online. This interesting book by L.S.M. Curtin contains cultural information about the Pima (O&#039;odham) Indians here in Arizona. One section of the book describes the traditional uses of the edible and medicinal plants found here in the Sonoran Desert. The University [...]]]></description>
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