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Sunday April 21, 2013

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A towhee sits on a high branch at sunrise, his breast puffed out against the cold. His rufous feathers briefly match the color of the ridge.

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Apr·21

Sunday March 10, 2013

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The fluting of geese: just two of them, flying far apart. Sunrise seeps like a dirty secret between cracks in the clouds.

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Mar·10

Monday February 04, 2013

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The sun rises above a mass of cloud looming like the lost, real mountain for which this is a foothill. A wren pops out from under the porch.

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Tagged Carolina wren, clouds, sunrise

Feb·04

Wednesday January 30, 2013

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Dull yellow stripes in the fog: the rising sun slipping between ridge-top trees; thin tulip poplar branches chewed bare by a porcupine.

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Jan·30

Friday January 18, 2013

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It’s very cold; the tall locust at the woods’ edge creaks with ice. A woodpecker taps on the topmost limb, silhouetted against pink clouds.

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Tagged black locust, cold, downy woodpecker, sunrise

Jan·18

Tuesday January 08, 2013

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I hold out my glasses and peer at a drop of water left over from the shower: fisheye lens in which the sun falls from bent, inverted trees.

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Tagged ablutions, sunrise

Jan·08

Thursday November 29, 2012

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The sun rising through the trees off to the southeast seems so much less ambitious than last night’s moon. Goldfinches’ desultory chirps.

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Nov·29

Wednesday November 21, 2012

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Melting hoarfrost drips like rain. I watch one glistening drop change from red to yellow to violet as the sun inches into the deep blue sky.

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Nov·21

Thursday November 15, 2012

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The soft-edged shadows glimmer with frost; the stripes of dim sunlight glisten. Only the Carolina wren insists on clarity, clarity, clarity.

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Nov·15

Sunday November 11, 2012

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The fourth-quarter moon is the thinnest of Cheshire-Cat grins among the treetops. Sunrise reddens the western ridge. A nuthatch calls.

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Nov·11

Wednesday October 17, 2012

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A bald-faced hornet nest hangs abandoned from the top of a birch. The sun finds a new hole in the forest and blinds me as it tops the ridge.

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Oct·17

Thursday August 30, 2012

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Cold and clear. A whitish gnat zigzags toward the woods, following a sunbeam, like an anadromous fish ascending its native creek.

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Aug·30

Friday August 24, 2012

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A murky sunrise. Gnatcatchers high in the tulip tree dart and hover, tiny silhouettes against a cross-hatch of stratus clouds.

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Aug·24

Thursday July 05, 2012

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At sunrise, two bird calls I associate with early spring: blue-headed vireo and chickadee. But the breeze is warm, the sun a lurid orange.

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Jul·05

Thursday May 03, 2012

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Sun struggles through the humid air: a golden glow. The leaves look twice as big as yesterday, animated by the buzzy calls of warblers.

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Friday April 27, 2012

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The sun clears the ridge and disappears behind a dark lid of clouds. The wind which a moment before felt envigorating is now simply cold.

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Apr·27

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