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A smear of sun, strong enough to cast thin shadows. Four white-throated sparrows trade variations of the same song like old-time fiddlers, trying slightly...
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Cool and still damp from rain in the small hours. The sun goes back in after just fifteen minutes. The house finch stops caroling as the wind picks up.
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The Morning Porch – Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
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Brick-red clouds barely move as a relentless wind rummages through the trees and shrubs on the ridgeside. A thin slice of moon gets lost among tossing limbs.
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The Morning Porch
Quiet and cool at mid-morning. A cloud appears in the east only to disintegrate. Towhees call from several directions as I finish my tea.
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A gray sky gravid with rain. A gray squirrel pops out of a hole in the yard, walnut between its teeth. Up in the woods, a chipmunk zips across the snow.
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About – The Morning Porch
Welcome to the world’s least ambitious daily newspaper! I’m Dave Bonta. For many years, based on the late, lamented Twitter platform, I wrote no more than 140...
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