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Sunday October 20, 2013

Dave Bonta October 20, 2013

Sunny and cold. The soft whistles of white-throated sparrows are slowly subsumed by the hundred voices of an approaching bulldozer.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged bulldozer, white-throated sparrow
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