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Dave Bonta April 3, 2018

Cold rain and fog. A squirrel disappears into the old flicker den hole in the dead elm, that smooth, ruined column at the edge of the yard.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged elm, fog, gray squirrel, rain
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