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November 9, 2007

Dave Bonta November 9, 2007

A doe trailed by a scrawny 5-point buck. The soundtrack includes a train, a raven, geese, a wren, and a low-flying plane with a wide eraser.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged Canada geese, Carolina wren, deer, plane, raven, train

November 8, 2007

Dave Bonta November 8, 2007

Dawn finds the first snow — a faint dusting. It’s very still. Down in the pines, a screech owl quavers. The slow footfalls of a deer.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged deer, screech owl

From 6:00 to 6:30, it’s… November 7, 2007

Dave Bonta November 7, 2007

From 6:00 to 6:30, it’s quiet except for the distant whine of truck tires and the wind in the treetops, more rattle than rustle now.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged I-99, trucks

November 6, 2007

Dave Bonta November 6, 2007

Wind and rain have stripped the birches and maples at the edge of the woods. A gray squirrel leaps through the bare branches.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged gray squirrel

November 5, 2007

Dave Bonta November 5, 2007 1

Venus and the fourth-quarter moon stand close together, shining through the treetops as I drink my coffee.

Posted in Plummer's Hollow
Tagged coffee, Venus

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    Each dawn this time of year brings revelation: the sky behind the ridgetop trees emerging piecemeal like a puzzle. And between the sun and the…
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    Cloudy and cold. In the thinning treetops, a squirrel takes a wild leap to lose a suitor. Tulip tree samaras helicopter down.
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    As the rising sun glimmers through the trees, birch and walnut leaves begin to fall, the first hard frost glittering on the ground.
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    Treetop leaves flipping back and forth—not waving but drowning in the deep blue sky. Sunlight from the window behind me illuminates my book.

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Cover of Ice Mountain with a linocut of a big ridgetop tree.

What I do after I sit on the porch. One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.

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