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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

  • January 16, 2025
    Overcast, cold and still. A pair of amorous squirrels climb slowly up and down the trees at the woods’ edge. I take it on faith…
  • January 16, 2024
    Snow falling at dawn—fine flakes at first, then larger and faster as the darkness subsides, as if they’re emissaries for the day. A chickadee sings…
  • January 16, 2023
    Coyotes yipping up on the ridge before dawn. I try to guess the weather based a jet’s contrail—not too long—in the faint light of a…
  • January 16, 2022
    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.
  • January 16, 2021
    Rising late, I catch the last of some new-snow magic dripping from the eaves. Friends arrive bearing sauerkraut.

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