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Saturday April 18, 2015

Dave Bonta April 18, 2015

Flies and butterflies, gnats and gnatcatchers, blue-headed vireo, paper wasp. The towhee in the lilac bush starts his song with a stutter.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged blue-headed vireo, gnatcatcher, lilac, towhee, wasp
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    Snow falling in large, wet clusters: I watch the woods whiten. Small clouds of powder in a multiflora rosebush as snowbirds dart in and out. …

    February 19, 2012

    First light. The silence is broken by a rustle in the leaves, followed a little later by the hollow sound of a creek stone being flipped. …

    February 19, 2011

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Cover of Ice Mountain with a linocut of a big ridgetop tree.
One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.

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