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October 2, 2024 by Dave Bonta

Another dark, rainy dawn. I can’t stop thinking of my last dream before waking, in which I had died and reincarnated as a deer. I had so many legs, and everything was delicious!

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags dawn, dreams, rain 2 Comments
April 15, 2013September 21, 2009 by Dave Bonta

I dream of giant salamanders and wake to a pair of red-tailed hawks on the tree limb closest to the porch, heads pivoting like gun turrets.

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On This Day

  • October 30, 2025
    Hard rain easing off by mid-morning. The sky brightens. A junco by the springhouse warbles its most complex song.
  • October 30, 2024
    Dawn. High in a red oak crown an acorn lets go, tapping the branches on its way down like a blind man’s cane.
  • October 30, 2022
    Late in rising, I’m grateful to the oaks for still holding leaves—I don’t need sunglasses. My brother texts: Savannah sparrows in the field!
  • October 30, 2021
    Fog. A squirrel is peeling ribbons of bark from the branches of the big tulip tree. And all these years I’ve been blaming porcupines!
  • October 30, 2020
    Five minutes after I check the weather app to verify it’s going to stay cloudy, the sun comes out. The damp forest glistens like a salamander.

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