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February 7, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Pink lingers in the sky for half an hour past sunrise. Great gusts of wind roar through the forest and my eyes track the motion, automatically searching for the beast I know isn’t there.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags sunrise, wind
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On This Day

  • November 11, 2025
    A bitter wind has brought the first, thin snowfall. I open my folding seat cushion and find a yellow leaf nestled like a letter in an envelope.
  • November 11, 2024
    A clearing wind at dawn, after some much-needed rain. A mourning dove sits placidly on a swaying branch, facing east.
  • November 11, 2023
    A few patches of frost in the yard as the sun clears the ridgetop. Juncos move through the rambling old lilac, its last few leaves faded nearly to yellow.
  • November 11, 2022
    Steady drumming of rain on the porch roof. Dark trunks disappearing into fog. A classic November day.
  • November 11, 2021
    Two degrees above freezing, with the sun reduced to a bright smudge by a thin wash of cloud. Juncos and a nuthatch forage at the woods’ edge.

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

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