The Morning Porch

Dave Bonta June 23, 2024

Overcast. Sunrise is when the crows wake up. A large brown moth tucks itself into the eaves.

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November 13, 2024
Clear, cold and still. Sunlight refracted in heavy frost glitters in all the colors of the rainbow.
November 13, 2023
22F/-5C at sunrise. Every twig and leaf is lightly frosted. I watch my clouds of breath drift into the yard.
November 13, 2022
Snowflakes floating down from a patchy sky, where the third-quarter moon appears and disappears. The distant fluting of geese.
November 13, 2021
Cold and gray. Goldenrod seed heads like white-haired old men nodding and whispering far-fetched conspiracy theories about a coming winter.
November 13, 2020
Backlit by the rising sun for the first time since early May, when the forest behind it leafed out, the old French lilac looks newly…