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February 14, 2011 by Dave Bonta

43F at sunrise—it feels balmy. The trees rock back and forth under a cloudless sky, touching in ways they rarely do, clattering, groaning.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags thaw, trees, wind 5 Comments
August 10, 2009 by Dave Bonta

Just before dawn, the creak of a tree in the woods, and then in the yard. A bindweed in the garden aims its white blunderbuss at the moon.

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    Heavily overcast. A raven flies over with a falsetto croak. A field sparrow circles the house, declaring his territory.
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    Cool and clear at sunrise. A gobbler trailed by two hens parades up into the forest, making a half-turn each time he opens the dark…
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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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