September Newsletter 2010
Newsletter features:
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End of Summer SALE on all plain silver animal heads !
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New Designs: Lions and Tigers
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New Animal Stories
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Photo journal from our trip to the
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Donations
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Good news from the Mayor’s Art Show
Summer thunderstorm in the Imnaha Gorge, Wallowa Mountains,
The Imnaha Gorge, just east of Hell’s Canyon on the
Wolves are a native species in
END OF SUMMER
Have fun looking through the
NEW DESIGNS: Lions and Tigers
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Silver Stylized Lion w/ Garnet Eyes 2 inch length |
Bronze LionHeart w/ Amber
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With these two new tiger designs, I wanted to evoke the pageantry, sparkle and decorative splendor of a Chinese New Year’s parade!
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Year of the Tiger / Bronze Pendant 2 ¼ overall length $485.00
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Silver Imperial Tiger w/ Amber |
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Silver Textured Tiger w/ Indian Tiger head: 1 ½ inch length; Overall length: 2 ½ inches $460.00
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Bronze Textured Lion w/ African Spiral Beads |
See many more Lion and Tiger designs, including plain silver heads ( which are on sale ), in the NEW DESIGNS folder inside the
NEW Animal Stories
There are lots of new stories in the Animal Totem Stories section of the website, including some lion and tiger totem stories!
My current favorite is a story about rabbits by Mary Sojourner.
Her story is called Rabbits and Red Butte.
Here is a link: http://www.brookestonejewelry.com/story.php?story=31
Mary Sojourner is a well-known author and NPR commentator who has been writing about environmental issues and women’s issues since the mid-1980’s.
Visit her blog at this address: http://marysojourner.blogspot.com/
A Photo Journal: Our summer camping adventure to the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern
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Almost every street corner in Joseph has its own beautiful wildlife sculpture.
Once settled into our campground at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains, we took a gondola ride up to the top of snow-covered
The next day, we drove through the Imnaha Gorge and up the narrow, steep 24-mile-long gravel road to Hat Point, on the rim of Hell’s Canyon. Hat Point is the only reachable overlook down into Hell’s Canyon, which is fully as deep as the
Hat Point Overlook, Hell’s Canyon, with forest fire-burned trees in foreground
I love geology and am always reading my roadside geology books as we travel. Here’s an excerpt from Roadside Geology of
“One of the many surprising things about Hell’s Canyon is the fact that the surface of the plateau in which it is cut is highest at the canyon rim. The plateau surface slopes up to the canyon rim, not down towards it as we might expect. Many other large canyons are like this and the explanation is as curious as the phenomenon—it depends upon the fact that the earth’s crust is floating on the interior.
Because the earth’s crust is floating, it sinks when a load is placed on it and rises when one is removed, as though it were an air mattress floating on a lake…
Removing a load from the earth’s crust will cause it to float upward to compensate for the weight of the material removed.
Erosion of a large canyon, such as Hell’s Canyon, removes a large load, causing the area of the canyon to rise… As erosion carves Hell’s Canyon deeper, its rim rises steadily higher and we see that under the right circumstances erosion can actually make mountains higher instead of lower.”
Imnaha Gorge / Summer Thunderstorm
Wildflowers are at their height in early July in Imnaha Gorge and on the rim of Hell’s Canyon…..
Paeonia brownii, ( Western Peony or Native Peony ), is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the family Paeoniaceae, native to the western United States, growing in dry sagebrush and Ponderosa Pine country. Excepting Paeonia californica, which is sometimes considered a sub-species, this is the only Paeonia native to
Northwestern Native Americans made tea from the roots to treat lung ailments.
And finally, here’s our beloved Cozy Cruiser at the Ochoco Divide Campground.
Animal Jewelry Donations
The Howell Nature Center in
See their website at: http://www.howellnaturecenter.org/
Mayor’s Art Show News
I’ll bet you didn’t know about my hobby…. I make primitive hooked wool rugs and wall hangings and belong to a local hooker’s guild. We call ourselves Dyed In The Wool Rug Hookers. Here’s a picture of my rug:
Wolves in
A parting thought, from an old traditional gospel song I love:
Farther along we’ll know all about it.
Farther along we’ll understand why.
Cheer up my brothers, live in the sunshine.
We’ll understand it all bye and bye.
Tempted and tried we’re oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long.
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.
Farther along we’ll know all about it.
Farther along we’ll understand why.
Cheer up my brothers, walk in the sunshine.
We’ll understand it all bye and bye.
Thanks for looking at our newsletter. Have a happy summer!
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- New Designs
- Wolves (Canidae )
- Bears (Ursidae)
- Large Cats
- Cougars, Mt. Lions, Panthers
- Small Cats
- Coyotes and Foxes (Canidae)
- Beavers, Badgers, Otters and Raccoons
- African Animals
- Asian Animals
- Horses (Equidae)
- Horned Animals (Cervidae, Bovidae)
- Eagles, Hawks and Kestrels (Raptors)
- Ravens, Owls and other Birds
- Rabbits and Rodents
- Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish
- Resurrection Series
- Earrings
- Chains and Neckrings
- Charms and Amulets
