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August 16, 2025 by Dave Bonta

In the wake of a quick hummingbird with her elegant wand, a bumblebee continues to work the jewelweed, clambering up into each orange throat.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags bumblebee, jewelweed, ruby-throated hummingbird 2 Comments
August 14, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Cool and clear at sunrise. A yellow walnut leaf rests on the end table instead of a book. The slow motor of a bumblebee.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags bumblebee, fall foliage, sunrise
July 16, 2021 by Dave Bonta

The sun catches a tiny, white spider ballooning past the porch on a long strand of silk. It touches down in the bergamot, among bumblebees.

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On This Day

  • January 27, 2025
    Clear at daybreak with an inversion layer: tires on rumble strips interrupting the chatter of finches. The sun prickly as a porcupine among the trees.
  • January 27, 2024
    Meltwater roars in the creek. In the orange glow of sunrise, the cardinals emerge from the juniper tree, singing.
  • January 27, 2023
    Snow squall. A squirrel with two pursuers ascends a birch and turns on them, chasing again and again as the snow stops and clouds turn…
  • January 27, 2022
    Zero degrees. Sun through bare branches—a shining fur of hoarfrost. Two ravens fly in low and circle my mother’s house.
  • January 27, 2021
    Is it night or day? The 7 o’clock factory whistle has the answer. Two minutes later, the mockingbird begins to chirp—that take-charge tone.

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Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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