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September 6, 2022 by Dave Bonta

A break in the showers: it’s overcast but bright. A slug glides slowly up the porch railing with its 27,000 teeth.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, slugs
August 9, 2011 by Dave Bonta

Drizzle, and from the woods, the steady dripping that makes it sound as if the real rain is there, on the far side of the yard. Slug trail.

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