black cherry

Tuesday September 21, 2021

Dave Bonta September 21, 2021 0

Under a thinning white sky, the thinning crown of a black cherry tree already less green than salmon. The sunflowers face every direction.

Dave Bonta May 22, 2021

The black cherry blossoms are already fading, and the sun is going from dandelion-yellow to dandelion seedhead-white. Black-billed cuckoo.

Dave Bonta May 21, 2021

Cool morning. The melancholy sweetness of a wood thrush song. At the woods’ edge, the small black cherry has gone to bloom.

Dave Bonta April 18, 2021

In bright sun, the tulip poplar’s green torch beside a black cherry’s cloud of tiny pink leaves.

Dave Bonta October 24, 2020

Overcast and chilly, with enough of a breeze to make the salmon-colored cherry leaves shiver against an increasingly gray backdrop of woods.

Dave Bonta June 3, 2020 2

Thunderstorm just past, many leaves on the maple and black cherry trees remain upside-down, like pale, open palms turned toward the sky.

Dave Bonta July 18, 2016

Two chipmunks eating unripe drupes high in a black cherry tree suspend their usual hostilities. One jumps over the other when they meet.

Dave Bonta June 8, 2016

Wind salted with rain. A male indigo bunting clings to a black cherry branch like the one blue leaf, fluttering with the rest.

Dave Bonta June 2, 2016

In a lull between showers, the sideways shimmy of birch and black cherry leaves. One of the neighbors’ hens begins to screech.

Dave Bonta April 28, 2016

Cold drizzle. A brown thrasher improvises at the woods’ edge, and I spot the first tent caterpillar web—a tiny white flag in a wild cherry.