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January 6, 2025 by Dave Bonta

The merest shimmer of snow against the dark trees. The shriek of misaligned wheels on a lumbering freight train. One of the neighbor’s hens yelling her head off.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chickens, snow, train
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On This Day

  • December 11, 2024
    A dark and rainy dawn. Will anything mark the hidden sunrise? Yes: three crows fly right over the house, yelling. The rain continues.
  • December 11, 2023
    The western ridge is white with snow and more flakes spin down from thinning clouds, bellies turning orange against the blue. A crow kites overhead…
  • December 11, 2022
    Slow snowfall in a silence punctuated only by birds. I’m tired enough that watching it feels almost like sleep.
  • December 11, 2021
    Foggy and damp on the last day of regular firearms deer season. The limbs of the old crabapple glow blueish green with lichen.
  • December 11, 2020
    Weak sunlight — enough to melt the hard frost, make the ground glisten, conjure up a bit of mist and a Carolina wren’s hearty burble.

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

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