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Dave Bonta July 29, 2024

A cabbage white butterfly dances in a patch of sun—the method to a madness of perfectly random moves. An annual cicada’s slowly falling note.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged cabbage white butterfly, cicadas
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  • July 29, 2024
    A cabbage white butterfly dances in a patch of sun—the method to a madness of perfectly random moves. An annual cicada’s slowly falling note.
  • July 29, 2023
    White sky with distant crows. The stiltgrass in the meadow is still lying low after a thunderstorm yesterday at dusk.
  • July 29, 2022
    Bleary sun. Tree leaves are all astir, but not by much. Those birds who still sing make it sound perfunctory.
  • July 29, 2021
    A brief glimpse of sun through the mist and rain-soaked leaves. Then back to the humdrum of pewee and pileated woodpecker.
  • July 29, 2016
    Bright sun after last night’s long-awaited rain. A chipmunk races down the road with cheek pouches bulging. A wood pewee’s melancholy call.

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