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Dave Bonta November 10, 2020

Clear and still. An hour after the dawn fog lifted, a new, thinner mist appears—fog droplets evaporating off the trees.

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  • July 7, 2024
    Clear and blessedly cool as sunlight floods the treetops. A distant siren. The incessant chatter of goldfinches.
  • July 7, 2023
    A foggy sunrise. The catbird circles the house, mimicking the Carolina wren on double speed.
  • July 7, 2022
    Clear sky, sun in the treetops… “Cloudy conditions will continue all day,” my phone admonishes. The big tulip tree releases a yellow leaf.
  • July 7, 2021
    The dawn chorus is full of silences now. My leg and I are playing another exciting game of Name that Rash: Chiggers? Poison ivy? No-see-ums?
  • July 7, 2019
    Watching the ox-eye daisies slowly open, like the sun glimpsed after days of clouds—so predictable and yet such a thrill.

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