Tag Archives: fog

Deer have been eating the wild rosebush...

Deer have been eating the wild rosebush again, and the yard is a maze of rabbit tracks. The fog lifts for a minute, then returns.

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Cool and damp. The low-hanging clouds...

Cool and damp. The low-hanging clouds catch on the treetops. Crows signal their locations with almost every wingbeat.

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Fog. High in a skeletal birch, the...

Fog. High in a skeletal birch, the silhouettes of ten goldfinches are almost the right size for leaves, moving in their own slow wind.

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Dense fog and silence—the instant...

Dense fog and silence—the instant wilderness found inside a cloud. A leaf falls 100 feet away and I hear the soft rustle when it lands.

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Rain and fog. A pileated woodpecker...

Rain and fog. A pileated woodpecker performs invasive surgery on a locust tree next to the springhouse, removing a malignant colony of ants.

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Rain and fog. With the power out, the...

Rain and fog. With the power out, the world looms frighteningly close. Off in the woods, a bright clearing where some tree came down.

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Thin fog. A spiderweb spread like a...

Thin fog. A spiderweb spread like a handkerchief a few inches above the ground has a large collection of raindrops, each of them perfect.

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Fog in the treetops, lit up by the...

Fog in the treetops, lit up by the sun. Wingbeats of a large bird. The distant chirping of quarry trucks in reverse, one high, one low.

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Thanks to insomnia, I have two mornings...

Thanks to insomnia, I have two mornings: one with ground fog lit by the waning moon at dawn, the other hot and abuzz with carpenter bees.

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Where the moon had glowed through ground...

Where the moon had glowed through ground fog at 4:00, now the sun glimmers. Four ruby-crowned kinglets flutter in and out of the lilac.

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