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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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On This Day

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    A cold wind rummaging through the forest, mixing up the sounds of crows and trains and sirens. The sun appears for a second or two…
  • April 16, 2024
    In the last few minutes before the sun crests the ridge, ghosts lingering among the trees turn back into blossoming shadbush. A chickadee is singing…
  • April 16, 2023
    Sun glimmering through fog as wild turkeys whine and gobble, mourning doves moan, and a red-winged blackbird sings in the marsh.
  • April 16, 2022
    Rainy, breezy and intermittently bright. The zigzag flight of a phoebe finding breakfast above the daffodils.
  • April 16, 2021
    The last to shed leaves in the fall is the first to regrow them: sprawling lilac with green tongues just long enough to catch drops…

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