Sun in the treetops. A squirrel hangs head-down from a walnut branch to eat the flowers. My lover combs the tangles from her long hair.
The view from my front porch every morning, in 140 or fewer characters
Tag Archives: black walnuts
Walnut tree branches behind the house...
Walnut tree branches behind the house rock by turns, as if from the passage of some large animal, but it’s only this warm-blooded wind.
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The lowering sky lightens a little...
The lowering sky lightens a little when the rain finally starts. Yellow leaves flutter down from the walnut tree like exhausted moths.
The walnut trees are already losing...
The walnut trees are already losing their leaves, turning into grotesquely well-hung skeletons a-tremble with squirrels.
Also tagged gray squirrel
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A violently shaking black walnut branch...
A violently shaking black walnut branch passes its affliction to an adjacent locust: gray squirrel with an unripe walnut between its teeth.
Also tagged black locust, gray squirrel
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Solstice sunrise turns the western...
Solstice sunrise turns the western ridge red as an altar. A brown creeper fishes in all the dark valleys of the walnut tree’s bark.
Also tagged brown creeper, solstice, sunrise
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Below the porch, a dot of pink: a very...
Below the porch, a dot of pink: a very late dame’s-rocket blooming the day after a hard frost. A brown creeper inspects a small walnut tree.
Also tagged brown creeper, dame's-rocket, frost
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Dawn breeze. The whine of tires from...
Dawn breeze. The whine of tires from the highway over the ridge is punctuated by the heavy thwacks of falling walnuts.
Also tagged I-99
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A goldfinch gone green lands among...
A goldfinch gone green lands among walnut leaves that have gone yellow. Below, a juvenile red-bellied woodpecker, nape turning orange.
Also tagged goldfinches, red-bellied woodpecker
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A squirrel bounds over the snow with...
A squirrel bounds over the snow with a newly disinterred walnut in its teeth. Behind it in the yard, a neat hole ringed with pieces of husk.
Also tagged gray squirrel
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