The Morning Porch

July 6, 2016 by Dave Bonta

Humid and cool. A nuthatch spirals up rather than down a walnut tree trunk, turning upside-down only when it finds something to eat.

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A late-morning brightness in the clouds. A white-breasted nuthatch descending a tall black locust turns right-side-up.
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Bright sun, icy breeze. A few flakes zoom past. The only cloud is tiny and dissolves as I watch, leaving the sky to the fourth-quarter…