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November 5, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Up on the ridgetop to watch the sunrise, seven distinct layers of red in the smog over State College, itself hidden by another wooded ridge. A jay wakes up and screams like a Hollywood eagle.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags blue jays, smog, sunrise
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On This Day

  • December 4, 2024
    After an orange sunrise, in the ordinary light of an overcast morning, the mechanical tapping of a downy woodpecker, the slow wingbeats of a raven.
  • December 4, 2023
    A mottled gray sky all the way to the horizon, not brightening even for the sunrise, let alone for the crows with their many complaints…
  • December 4, 2022
    Still haunted by dreams I can’t remember when the sun clears the ridge and sets the clouds of my breath aglow.
  • December 4, 2021
    Clear except for two contrails, fuzzy with age. Another scrap of gray paper has fallen from the old hornets’ nest, its lines blank as ever.
  • December 4, 2020
    The snow has shrunk to a few spots the low sun doesn’t reach. In the herb bed, the only white is a pile of clippings…

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Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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