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February 12, 2025 by Dave Bonta

The slow fall of small snowflakes never quite stops. A squirrel with a half a tail bounds past, carrying his freshy disinterred breakfast: a black lump of frozen walnut.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags black walnut, gray squirrel, snow, snowflakes
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On This Day

  • December 10, 2024
    Damp and unseasonably warm. The sky brightens toward mid-morning, and the hillside’s coat of wet oak leaves begins to shine.
  • December 10, 2023
    Steady rain—a gloomy sunrise. The big dead maple next to the road has the palest bark, its faces gone blank as masks.
  • December 10, 2022
    The moon is still bright but the sky has begun to turn blue. Up on the ridge, something barks twice, then falls silent.
  • December 10, 2021
    Finches cluster high in a black birch, gorging in silence. A squirrel digs up a walnut and re-buries it on the other side of the…
  • December 10, 2020
    Heavy cloud cover. A flash of red from a male cardinal cutting through the yard. Gray heads of goldenrod almost shine in the gloom.

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