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snowflakes

February 18, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Sun blazing through the trees illuminates lost snowflakes, miles from the nearest cloud. A chipmunk with hibernation insomnia races up the driveway.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chipmunks, snowflakes
February 3, 2023 by Dave Bonta

-12C with a wind. Which one of those small pink clouds is responsible for these snowflakes? My oil furnace trembles under the house like a wounded animal.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, cold, snowflakes, sunrise, wind
February 1, 2023 by Dave Bonta

I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to this: bitter cold with the ground mostly bare. Chickadees are having a fracas. Snow drifts down from a clearing sky.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chickadee, cold, snowflakes
January 26, 2023 by Dave Bonta

Gray sky raked by swaying treetops, the wind made visible by squadrons of snowflakes flying this way and that. The sound of rodent teeth.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags gray squirrel, snow, snowflakes, wind
January 6, 2023 by Dave Bonta

A few flakes of snow. Valley sounds eddy on the wind. The sun makes an appearance among the ridgetop trees.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags snow, snowflakes, sunrise, wind
December 11, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Slow snowfall in a silence punctuated only by birds. I’m tired enough that watching it feels almost like sleep.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags snow, snowflakes
December 1, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Treetops rock and sway in the wind—a restive mountainside. A few snowflakes fly this way and that.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags snowflakes, wind
April 19, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Gauzy curtains of snow falling from the treetops—six inches’ worth—even as more snowflakes start coming down. The wind’s work is never done.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags snow, snowflakes, wind
April 17, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Looking through a series of thin screens: swirling snowflakes, greening lilac, yellow forsythia, bare trees, holey clouds.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags clouds, daffodils, forsythia, snowflakes
April 10, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Snowflakes dance wildly but all the daffodils can do is nod and sway. O sweet Canada, sings the sparrow.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags daffodils, snow, snowflakes, white-throated sparrow 1 Comment
March 27, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Winter’s back, with snow on the ground and more coming down. Juncos twitter happily. An ambulance goes wailing through the gap.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags juncos, snow, snowflakes
March 26, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Heavy clouds except where the sun glimmers through. Snowflakes. The robin’s bright warble.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags American robin, clouds, snowflakes
February 19, 2022 by Dave Bonta

A flash mob of snowflakes rushing this way and that. Over the sound of water, the wind: all hiss, no hush.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags snowflakes, stream, wind
February 8, 2022 by Dave Bonta

Scattered snowflakes like free-range musical notation for scattered chirps—chickadee, nuthatch. A hint of sunrise fading from the clouds.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags chickadee, clouds, snowflakes, sunrise, white-breasted nuthatch
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