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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal &#8211; Scruffy, which made them feel right at [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal &#8211; Scruffy, which made them feel right at [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#8217;s a great addition.</p>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Floridacracker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75688</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75448</link>
		<dc:creator>JLLOVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal &#8211; Scruffy, which made them feel right at [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-77164</link>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#8217;s a great addition.</p>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Floridacracker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75688</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75448</link>
		<dc:creator>JLLOVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75376</link>
		<dc:creator>veronica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#8217;s a great addition.</p>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal &#8211; Scruffy, which made them feel right at [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-77377</link>
		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-77164</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLLOVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-77164</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-75688</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLLOVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Floridacracker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<description>[...] also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal &#8211; Scruffy, which made them feel right at [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
		<link>http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=659&#038;cpage=1#comment-77164</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>JLLOVE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197</title>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: Carnival of the Vanities #197-- Lil Duck Duck</title>
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		<description>[...] They also enjoyed the outdoor nature of Pablo&#8217;s post at Roundrock Journal - Scruffy, which made them feel right at home. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<description>I think it sounds beautiful! Thanks for putting it into the carnival, it&#039;s a great addition.</description>
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		<title>By: Floridacracker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and those ROUND ROCKS, what a trip hazard!</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:
&quot;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh gosh.  With every point you made, I loved the view that little bit more.  From something I wrote a few years ago:<br />
&#8220;When an urban youth looks at aspen and birch crowns, snowberry patches, or the shading of different native grasses on a hillside, are the uneven colours and textures, the irregular shapes, and the ragged edges taken as signs of lowliness and failure?  To me they are the very heart of beauty, these endless spontaneous variations, utterly free of the limits of a human mind.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: kim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>scruffy be way cool.</description>
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		<title>By: JLLOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We&#039;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We&#8217;re recent transplants from TN to NE OK.  What a delight to find your blog.  Lovely writing.  Your woods sound wonderful.  Young and unruly!<br />
We hope to explore SW MO this fall via cycling on the Katy.</p>
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		<title>By: veronica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.

But our love for places (and people) doesn&#039;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.

I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get anxious thinking about how guests will perceive my straggly little flower beds.  Getting anxious about acres and acres sounds overwhelming.</p>
<p>But our love for places (and people) doesn&#8217;t blind us to their realities; it reveals them.  You see Roundrock as it really is, past and potential, dreams and experience.  You see the platonic ideal of Roundrock.  It is the outsider whose perceptions are whittled down by comparisons who cannot see it as it really is.</p>
<p>I have been enjoying your blog.  I figured I should de-lurk finally.</p>
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		<title>By: bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Forests are supposed to be scruffy, aren&#039;t they.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forests are supposed to be scruffy, aren&#8217;t they.</p>
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