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October 4, 2024 by Dave Bonta

More clouds than sun. A smell of woodsmoke. Stillness haunted by the distant sounds of wheels and engines.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, I-99
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On This Day

  • October 26, 2025
    Clear and still, with patches of light frost. The sky has made considerable inroads into the forest just since yesterday. A jay’s waking call elicits a reply from the far ridge: softer notes at first, then the familiar jeer.
  • October 26, 2024
    Clouds with yellow bellies and a clearing breeze. One oak leaf spirals down stem-first, hits the ground and bounces.
  • October 26, 2023
    Sunrise: pink and orange in the sky as on the hillside. A white-breasted nuthatch punctuates a white-throated sparrow’s song.
  • October 26, 2022
    Heavily overcast and quiet at dawn. A low surf of crickets. From the spruce grove a half mile away, a barred owl’s hoo-aw.
  • October 26, 2021
    Breezy drizzle mixing in with falling leaves—those that twirl, those that spiral, those that somersault, those that glide.

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