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Month: March 2024

March 3, 2024 by Dave Bonta

The creek still sings yesterday morning’s rainy tune, but by 8:00 o’clock the uniform white sky has devolved into patches of dark and light.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, stream
March 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Rain clouds have settled in among the trees with their bodies like smoke. Wood frogs and forest salamanders must be stirring in their death-like sleep.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, rain
March 1, 2024 by Dave Bonta

At the end of a tunnel of shining twigs, the rising sun. A red-bellied woodpecker whinnies from the top of a locust tree. The furnace under my house rumbles to life.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags red-bellied woodpecker, sunrise
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