The Morning Porch

September 17, 2010 by Dave Bonta

Due to the drought, the goldenrod display is subdued this year—but birch are turning three weeks early. September will have its yellow.

August 8, 2025
Mid-morning and the sun is just struggling free of clouds and/or smoke. A chicken cackles in the distance. Annual cicadas exchange raspy notes.
August 8, 2024
Drizzle. A family of wrens make the sprawling old lilac sing and shimmy.
August 8, 2023
Drizzle in the wind even as the sky brightens. Small patches of blue appear and disappear. A yellow leaf spirals down into the yard.
August 8, 2022
Clear but with atmospheric haze, so the sunlight leaking down the trees looks murky behind the goldfinches’ purer yellow.
August 8, 2021
Walnut leaves have begun to yellow, as leaf miners turn the locust trees brown. A red-eyed vireo warbles on and on.