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humidity

June 21, 2021 by Dave Bonta

Hot and humid. A silver-spotted skipper draws my eye to a bindweed trumpet, its silent hosannas seemingly aimed at the ancient rose bush.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags bindweed, humidity, rose bush, silver-spotted skipper
June 20, 2021 by Dave Bonta

Humidity so thick that breathing feels like vaping. Cabbage whites puddle in the road—the hallucinatory, slow fanning of 21 pairs of wings.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cabbage white butterfly, humidity
August 13, 2016 by Dave Bonta

Warm and humid. The air is redolent with rot and mold. A hummingbird zooms past, almost too fast for the eye to register. My stomach growls.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags humidity, ruby-throated hummingbird
August 20, 2014 by Dave Bonta

Overcast and humid. A Carolina wren trills in short bursts, as if in imitation of the crickets creaking in the long grass.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags Carolina wren, crickets, humidity 1 Comment
May 22, 2013 by Dave Bonta

Warm and humid. A hornet inspecting the porch on foot pauses in front of my sandals, waving her antennae like Geiger counter wands.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags hornet, humidity 1 Comment
June 22, 2011 by Dave Bonta

The steady rain of 6 a.m. gives way to sticky heat by 10. I stand gazing like a sad father at the portion of my garden given over to moss.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags humidity, moss, rain 1 Comment

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