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June 27, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Rain tapering off by eight. Even the fog looks green. Wild garlic plants in the yard are beginning to straighten, heads going up like herons trying to swallow large fish.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fog, rain, wild garlic
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