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February 4, 2025 by Dave Bonta

A gray sunrise, signalled only by the yelling of crows. After yesterday’s warmth, the ground is more brown than white. The wind picks up, clattering through the treetops.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags American crow, clouds, snow, sunrise, wind
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On This Day

  • October 7, 2025
    Overcast with an orange sunrise glow. Jays, the cardinal, a towhee. A winter wren burbles quietly beside the springhouse.
  • October 7, 2024
    Breezy and cool at dawn. Migrants trade notes as they explore the forest edge: towhee, phoebe, thrush. A lost passenger jet comes roaring overhead.
  • October 7, 2023
    Rain clouds moving out by mid-morning, when blue sky appears, revealing a higher layer of cirrus moving west while shreds of cumulus keep flying east.
  • October 7, 2022
    Dawn. I watch the stars fade then brighten again, as a thin veil of cloud I hadn’t noticed moves off like a lizard’s third eyelid.
  • October 7, 2021
    Rain and fog. With the goldenrod going gray, the yellow has moved from the meadow to the woods’ edge: spicebush, walnut, birch, elm, tulip tree.

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

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