The Morning Porch

September 30, 2023 by Dave Bonta

A clearing sky. with traffic sound out of the east. Six geese coming flapping low over the trees, honking like lost Volvos.

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Cool with a mix of thin clouds and murky blue. The buzzy, accelerating song of a Blackburnian warbler is interrupted by the buzzy, accelerating song…
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A damp sunrise after thunderstorms in the night. Waves of scent from the lilac, whose blossoms are beginning to fade and droop. The nonstop chatter…
May 8, 2023
If ever there were a morning to freeze in time forever, this would be it: this quality of light. The converse of wind with new…
May 8, 2022
A wet and shining woods stippled with burst buds. Over the rush of the creek, a cerulean warbler’s buzzy love song to the sky.
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A mid-morning pause in the rain. The towhee attacks a catbird gathering dead grass under the lilac, driving it off, then sings in triumph.