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Friday March 22, 2019

Dave Bonta March 22, 2019

The banks of moss above the road shine bright after last night’s rain. Two chickadees sing their spring songs as snowflakes fill the air.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged chickadee, moss, rain, snowflakes
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    March 2, 2020

    Unseasonably warm. A bluebottle fly descends a porch column as slowly as a sleepwalker. A bit of cattail down drifts back and forth. …

    March 2, 2019

    Bird tracks in the snow next to the house like meandering lines of cuneiform verse, breaking off at odd points where something took flight. …

    March 2, 2018

    The wind that shook the house all night has dwindled to an occasional gust. An inch of snow plasters the porch and the east sides of trees. …

    March 2, 2017

    High winds and a skim of snow like mildew on the ground. Trees overcome their aversion to touch, twist in a hambone dance of sapless limbs. …

    March 2, 2016

    Cold (-6C). The wind drives pin-pricks of snow against my cheek. I squint at the sun through bare oak branches. It's good to be back. …

    March 2, 2015

    An oak leaf wanders into the yard, resting in the lee of a snowdrift on its five curled tips before cart-wheeling off into the field. …

    March 2, 2014

    The ballyhooed snowstorm begins slowly: temperature above freezing, and just a few, insouciant flakes melting on contact with the bare road. …

    March 2, 2013

    A squirrel climbs the elm with a mouthful of dried leaves, goes into the old flicker hole and turns to face out, ready for other contenders. …

    March 2, 2011

    Clear, cold and windy. A turkey vulture slides sideways above the trees, rocking on its rigid wings like a catamaran crossing a rough sea. …

    March 2, 2010

    A squirrel bounds over the snow with a newly disinterred walnut in its teeth. Behind it in the yard, a neat hole ringed with pieces of husk. …

    March 2, 2009

    A groundhog emerges from the culvert and rears up to survey a route to the next female's burrow. His head swivels, following a noisy crow. …

    March 2, 2008

    Clear, cold, and very quiet. A distant train whistle is picked up and repeated by a screech owl. The incremental progress of the moon. …

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