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I’m a plant biology student at Ohio University where I spend my free time doing yoga, taking nature photographs and drinking coffee. I have a fondness for nature, especially trees, mosses and fuzzy rodents. My favorite color, of course, is green.

I fell in love with the American transcendentalist writers when I first read Thoreau, Irving, Emerson and Whitman in a high school English class. I have an odd habit of picking up old copies of The Sketchbook by Washington Irving.

Friends have called me a hippie before, mostly because I’m vegetarian and quick to nag if I witness them tossing out a recyclable bottle. I don’t consider myself an environmentalist, more of a treehugger/yogi who buys fair trade/organic and organizes tree plantings. My tree-planting group can be reached at these websites:

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2313049615

http://releaf-treeblog.blogspot.com/

Occasionally, I teach yoga. At the moment, I’m a volunteer yoga teacher for my former high school cross country team. Earlier this summer I taught a week long yoga class for third/fourth graders at my favorite nature center (Aullwood Audubon Center and Farm). For yogic updates, I have a sister site here: http://eilayoga.wordpress.com/.

Currently, my focus has been on photography, but I also dabble in collage, sculpture (mostly small scale), sewing, and of course the occasional doodling spree during lecture. My hope/wish/prayer is to take a ceramics course before graduating in 2009.

At the moment, I have a photography show in October at a local Athens coffee shop (Perk’s, info here: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=33315902&id=12331516#/event.php?eid=20026774439), am selling yoga mat bags through Wild Mercantile in Athens and yoga t-shirts through Inhale Yoga Studio (also in Athens), am painting a bodhi tree on the wall of the Inhale Yoga studio and have recently opened my own little online shop on Etsy. Please check them out!

Peace, Love & Trees,

Courtney