Clear, clear, clear: say the same thing often enough, the cardinal knows, and one day you’ll be right. The east is red with maple blossoms.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
Monthly Archives: March 2010
My dial thermometer’s big red...
My dial thermometer’s big red arrow says just above freezing; its shadow says just below. And in the glass, bare trees, clouds flying south.
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When the sun finally breaches the fog...
When the sun finally breaches the fog, the forest drips with jewels. In the yard, the first native wildflower opens its pin-sized blooms.
Tagged bitter cress, fog
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Overcast and cold. Ten feet up the...
Overcast and cold. Ten feet up the trunk of the big maple, a fox squirrel drinks sap from a slit the woodpeckers have widened.
Tagged fox squirrel, gray squirrel, red maple
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The sun blazes through naked trees...
The sun blazes through naked trees still six weeks from leaf-out. Three vultures wheel, flapping to stay aloft in the frigid air.
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It’s cold. The first two miniature...
It’s cold. The first two miniature daffodils are open, and stand among the crowd of upright buds with their heads bowed toward the earth.
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I watch it grow light, then start to...
I watch it grow light, then start to grow dark again. A rustle in the leaves that starts as the footfalls of deer turns to rain.
Tagged deer, rain
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A cloudless morning, and cold, but...
A cloudless morning, and cold, but the field sparrow who just returned yesterday is trying to get something started with his rush of notes.
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The last patch of snow vanished in...
The last patch of snow vanished in the night, leaving only the fuzzy erasers of pussy willow to remind us of the purity of the blank page.
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Rain from what must be thin clouds....
Rain from what must be thin clouds. The sunrise glow lights up a deer at the wood’s edge, bright as litter against the brown leaves.
