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December 25, 2025 by Dave Bonta

A heavily overcast Christmas morning. With the hum of industry stilled, I can hear the wind in the pines a hundred yards off—a sleeper’s sudden, long sigh.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags white pine, wind
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