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narcissus

April 14, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Sun through thin clouds on an unseasonably warm morning. A carpenter bee inspects my aging porch. Next to the old broken dog statue in my yard, the white narcissus is in bloom.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags carpenter bees, clouds, dog statue, narcissus
December 4, 2022April 28, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Five degrees below freezing. The lilac leaves are already big enough to show their backs to the wind. Four white narcissuses bob and sway.

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On This Day

  • June 30, 2025
    Overcast and cool. In the daylily patch at the base of the walnut tree next to the road, there’s a changing of the guard as yesterday’s trumpets go limp and today’s ease open, orange and buzzing.
  • June 30, 2024
    The edge of a small storm an hour past sunrise brings another shower and a restless breeze. From the treetops, the sound of nestlings begging to be fed.
  • June 30, 2022
    Another perfect morning. A wood thrush is singing next to the springhouse. The surrealism of it all when distilled into memory come December.
  • June 30, 2021
    Mist in the meadow and among the trees where the first sunbeams look almost solid. Crows, wren, catbird, common yellowthroat.
  • June 30, 2016
    A catbird darts into the weeds. I stand up to look: it’s gobbling down the first ripe raspberries. The buzz of a hummingbird at the beebalm.

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

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

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