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Month: March 2023

March 3, 2023 by Dave Bonta

With a storm on the way, the sun is a bright smear in a field of white. Still the normal early-spring soundtrack: cardinal, nuthatch, junco, crow, plane, train…

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cardinal, clouds, juncos, white-breasted nuthatch
March 2, 2023 by Dave Bonta

The mid-morning sun in the forecast comes with a scrim of cloud, a breeze, and a raven on the ridgetop going bonk…bonk…bonk…

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, raven, wind
March 1, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Fast-moving, yellow-bellied clouds stream up from the southeast, clearing to reveal a long bow of tundra swans arrowing north.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, sunrise, tundra swans
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On This Day

  • January 24, 2025
    Snow at sunrise: widely-spaced flakes falling from a half-clear sky for more than half an hour. After a while, I feel as if I’m witnessing…
  • January 24, 2024
    Damp and cold. Snowmelt drips from the roof. A blue jay makes a half-hearted hawk-scream and fall silent.
  • January 24, 2023
    Sunrise layers of yellow and blue, cloud and clear. High in a black birch, two chickadees feed and squabble.
  • January 24, 2022
    Clear and still, with yesterday’s snow still clinging to the trees. Bergamot seedheads sport wizards’ caps. Crows yell about the sunrise.
  • January 24, 2021
    Cold (-10°C) and quiet, save for my mother’s periodic hollering at the squirrels on their back porch. My clouds of breath rise straight up.

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Cover of Ice Mountain with a linocut of a big ridgetop tree.

What I do after I sit on the porch. One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.

Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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