I can hear my mother yelling at the squirrels: Go! Go! Go! It occurs to me that snow is the opposite of water, slippery when dry.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
Monthly Archives: January 2009
In the pre-dawn darkness, the wall...
In the pre-dawn darkness, the wall of trees is in motion, like a silent waterfall. I’m either having an acid flashback, or it’s snowing.
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A dozen doves take flight all at once...
A dozen doves take flight all at once—a confusion of flutes. From the almost-finished house a quarter mile away, the scream of a power saw.
Tagged mourning doves, neighbors
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Like sand in an hourglass this pellet...
Like sand in an hourglass this pellet snow. Three craters in the yard—grass, leaves—from something that’s trying to turn back the clock.
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The promised snowstorm has yet to arrive...
The promised snowstorm has yet to arrive. The air is dead still, and an hour after daybreak, the ground remains lighter than the sky.
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Silhouetted against the snow, not one...
Silhouetted against the snow, not one but two rabbits! Winter says: where much is hidden, much is also revealed. Ask the great-horned owls.
Tagged cottontail
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The sun glimmers from a shrinking patch...
The sun glimmers from a shrinking patch of open sky along the horizon. Lake-bottom wrecks, in another minute the icy lid will cover us all.
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Treetops sway wildly at first light...
Treetops sway wildly at first light, squeaking and clattering. A rabbit zigzags across the yard, pausing at each dark patch of bare ground.
Tagged cottontail
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A few hours above freezing yesterday...
A few hours above freezing yesterday, and the snowpack lost its ability to absorb sound. I sit in the dark listening to the roar of trucks.
Tagged trucks
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Fingers of sunlight stretch across...
Fingers of sunlight stretch across the yard. The resident naturalist climbs the trail into the woods with the aid of a long thin stick.
Tagged Mom
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