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Dave Bonta July 16, 2021

The sun catches a tiny, white spider ballooning past the porch on a long strand of silk. It touches down in the bergamot, among bumblebees.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged bergamot, bumblebee, spiders
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