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May 11, 2026 by Dave Bonta

Cool and nearly clear, with cirrus coming in after sunrise, and the sun like an old soldier fading away as a truck rounds the bend of the road, hauling a new roof for the barn.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, roofers
November 24, 2025 by Dave Bonta

Cloudless and still, except for the Amish men with nail guns firing into the roof of my mother’s house. The sun clears the ridge. A saw sinks its teeth into a two-by-four.

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On This Day

  • June 10, 2025
    Everything wet and shining as the clouds move out. A towhee flies up to a low limb and rubs the caterpillar in his bill against the bark to remove its bristles.
  • June 10, 2024
    Cold and very blue through the trees, where a great-crested flycatcher is going wheep wheep wheep wheep wheep and the leaves whisper everything they’re told.
  • June 10, 2023
    Breezy and clear. A deer steps out of the woods, grunting softly to collect her fawn, who comes leaping through the purple pom-poms of dame’s-rocket.
  • June 10, 2022
    A gnatcatcher is searching for breakfast on the undersides of leaves. A redstart lands on the porch railing and cocks her head at me.
  • June 10, 2021
    Downpour. An ant abandons its dead caterpillar. An earthworm dangles from a cardinal’s bill.

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