The Berries
It was only mid-afternoon, a week or so before the shortest day, and the trees in the woods and in the garden were already making long dusky shadows in the bright winter sunshine.
Old Possum had gone outside to start collecting supplies for the garlands he planned to make for this year’s Christmas tree. While he scooped bright-red berries off the ground and into a basket, the berries still clinging to the honeysuckle stems above his head drew dozens upon dozens of robins and starlings, who swooped and settled and swooped again, all the while feasting and gossiping and singing.
(Mid-December 2023)
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