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Dave Bonta September 16, 2024

Sun in the top of the tall tulip poplar—yellow crowning yellow. The last nighttime cricket falls silent. Off through the thinning woods, new chinks of sky.

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Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged crickets, fall foliage, tulip tree
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