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Dave Bonta March 15, 2024

A gray cloud ceiling brightens toward the horizon. A phoebe stridently announces himself to the echoey hillside and the daffodils trembling in the breeze.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged clouds, daffodils, phoebe
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