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Sunday May 05, 2013

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The leaves of the tall tulip tree at the wood’s edge are now as big as babies’ ears. A squirrel cries plaintively from its crown.

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May·05

Sunday April 28, 2013

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I look up from my laptop just as a Cooper’s hawk launches from the tulip poplar, flashing through the treetops toward its nest of sticks.

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Apr·28

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

Wednesday January 09, 2013

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Traffic noise from over the hill is deafening—the icy snowpack has become a sounding board. In the tulip tree, four slow, amorous squirrels.

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Jan·09

Tuesday November 13, 2012

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The big tulip tree at the woods’ edge is releasing its seeds, spinning blades backlit by the sun. The cedar by the door trembles with birds.

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Nov·13

Wednesday November 07, 2012

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A smudge of a sun sits in the crown of the tall tulip poplar like a grotesque fruit. Bluebird and Carolina wren song: a joyous soundtrack.

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Nov·07

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

Friday August 10, 2012

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A shimmer of rain. One of the lower branches on the big tulip tree has been stripped of bark, but its leaves haven’t gotten the news.

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Aug·10

Sunday July 15, 2012

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Ten percent of the tulip tree’s leaves have turned yellow in response to the drought. Goldfinches pass through like a yellow wind.

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Jul·15

Saturday May 26, 2012

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A slight breeze brings a shower of petals from the tulip tree, while a squirrel at the top of the black walnut makes it rain catkins.

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May·26

Tuesday May 22, 2012

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Drizzle. Just as I get the binoculars out, the cedar waxwings all take off whistling from the tulip tree and its outrageous yellow blooms.

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May·22

Wednesday April 25, 2012

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Sun strikes the top of the tulip tree—half-grown leaves vibrating in the wind. In the road, the severed hindquarters of a rabbit.

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Apr·25

Friday April 06, 2012

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Clear and cold at sunrise. A nuthatch on the dark side of the tall tulip poplar reverses course and ascends into the sunlit crown.

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Apr·06

Tuesday July 05, 2011

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A cuckoo climbs the trunk of the tulip tree, pausing every few inches to search for prey. The dump truck goes by with a rattle and clang.

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Jul·05

Friday July 01, 2011

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A convocation of robins in the tulip tree at the edge of the woods, like pot-bellied businessmen with their self-important tut-tut-tuts.

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Jul·01

Sunday June 12, 2011

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Wood thrush, cerulean warbler, red-eyed vireo, Baltimore oriole—song by song I tick them off as yellow petals fall from the tulip tree.

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Jun·12

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On this date

  • May 26, 2012
    A slight breeze brings a shower of petals from the tulip tree, while a squirrel at the top of the black walnut makes it rain catkins.
  • May 26, 2011
    The early-morning air is already thick with the smell of heat. Sunlit rooms in a palace of leaves. The oriole's glossy song.
  • May 26, 2010
    Up before dawn, I watch the morning star climbing through the treetops. The birds awake: fragments of song like an orchestra tuning up.
  • May 26, 2009
    Soft taps from a burdock leaf under the drip line: it's raining. A rose-breasted grosbeak drops into the springhouse marsh to get a drink.
  • May 26, 2008
    Robins mating on a branch: one-second contacts spaced half a minute apart. Each time the male flies off and the female ruffles her feathers.

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