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Year: 2022

January 17, 2022 by Dave Bonta

The tail-end of a storm that brought snow, sleet, freezing rain, and snow again. The trees look like they’ve been dipped in confectioner’s sugar.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags freezing rain, sleet, snow, snowstorm
January 16, 2022 by Dave Bonta

My first morning back since the New Year: clear, still, and bitter cold. The stream’s gurgle. The enthusiasm of small birds for the sunrise.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cold, stream, sunrise
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On This Day

  • February 23, 2025
    Clear at dawn, with the bright crescent moon inching teeth-first through the treetops. A mourning dove plays a downbeat rooster.
  • February 23, 2024
    Foggy at dawn with sound out of the east—the quarry instead of the interstate. Gray-green lichens glow on the rain-darkened trunks of sweet birches all…
  • February 23, 2023
    Mist rises from yesterday’s half inch of icy snow. A robin briefly joins the dawn chorus. The front-garden chipmunk returns from the woods with bulging…
  • February 23, 2022
    Unseasonably warm and overcast. Up in the woods, squirrels nose through leaf duff newly liberated from the snow. A few drops of rain.
  • February 23, 2021
    Overcast at sunrise. The cak-cak-cak of a Cooper’s hawk beginning to think about courtship and nesting, somewhere up in the snowy woods.

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