Morning_Porch
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Damp and overcast, but every bird on the mountain seems to be passing through my yard, wings flashing like old coins, like wooden nickles.
about 15 hours ago
from Identica
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Damp and overcast, but every bird on the mountain seems to be passing through my yard, wings flashing like old coins, like wooden nickels.
about 15 hours ago
from web
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A half-grown barn cat crawls out from under the house, gray and bedraggled as a clump of drier lint. One jay rasping at the top of a locust.
12:53 PM Nov 24th
from Identica
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The still, gray morning is interrupted by the throaty roar of a pickup truck full of hunters hauling an enormous homemade wooden tree stand.
12:26 PM Nov 24th
from Identica
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!listening to Ras Iley, "Spring Garden on Fire" (70s Soca)
12:22 PM Nov 24th
from Identica
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Nope, still broken.
12:02 PM Nov 24th
from Identica
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R.T. Smith's very moving !poem about dementia shows how to make an allusion to the classics without being pretentious:
11:45 AM Nov 24th
from Identica
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Gray morning with raven: that gutteral, wild cry so inadequately rendered in birders' onomatopoeia as "Bonk, bonk."
11:40 AM Nov 24th
from Identica
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Rain and fog with raven: silent, just above the treetops. White-throated sparrows and a freight train whistling at the same pitch.
6:49 AM Nov 24th
from web
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Gray morning with raven: that gutteral, wild cry so inadequately rendered in birders' onomatopoeia as "Bonk, bonk."
7:26 AM Nov 23rd
from web
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The still, gray morning is interrupted by the throaty roar of a pickup truck full of hunters hauling an enormous homemade wooden tree stand.
7:09 AM Nov 22nd
from web
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A half-grown barn cat crawls out from under the house, gray and bedraggled as a clump of drier lint. One jay rasping at the top of a locust.
8:25 AM Nov 21st
from web
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Yesterday's Morning Porch doesn't seem to have made it here from Identica. Bummer. Well, you can read it at
9:14 PM Nov 20th
from web
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@ I know, it was a stretch. Sometimes I just have to bust out of the rut, though.
9:44 PM Nov 19th
from web
in reply to i_cant_look
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The air sure smells good tonight! The actinomycetes & co. are doing a bang-up job here.
9:16 PM Nov 19th
from Identica
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Drizzle turns into downpour and the fog retreats up the ridge. An hour later the rain eases and the fog rolls in again, erasing the trees.
8:51 AM Nov 19th
from Identica
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A red-bellied woodpecker's head going up and down at the top of a tall locust, squeaking like a red marker on the whiteboard sky.
5:39 AM Nov 18th
from Identica
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A doe flees the urgent attentions of the resident 6-point, his burp-like grunts. Overhead, the loud cry of a crow chasing a hawk by itself.
8:56 AM Nov 17th
from Identica
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Silhouetted against the dawn sky, a wedge of geese intersects the treetops' lace. In the pauses between calls, the hush of wings.
8:03 AM Nov 16th
from Identica
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The top five most popular notices on at the moment are all !
9:02 AM Nov 15th
from Identica
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- Name Dave Bonta
- Location Plummer's Hollow, Pennsylvania
- Web http://www.vianeg...
- Bio Daily updates on the view and soundscape from my front porch, first thing in the morning. My microblogging homebase is Identica, http://identi.ca/morningporch
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