# quarry (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover quarry. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131672/) _2026-08-20 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ A soft shimmer of rain at dawn, increasing as the light grows. By sunrise it’s drowning out the wren’s song. A mosquito sings in my ear. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131669/) _2026-08-19 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and clear. Sunlight pours through a hole in the forest canopy into the crown of a black walnut tree, erasing the difference between green and yellow leaves. A mourning dove calls from the woods’ edge—not the full song, just a kind of two-syllable Wow. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131666/) _2026-08-18 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ A rare low-humidity morning begins with crows heralding the sunrise and a screech owl trilling in the distance. Yellow clouds fade to white. A bluebird begins warbling as I open my laptop. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131664/) _2026-08-17 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ An hour past sunrise, one last, brief shower before it clears—or so I hope. A deer walks out of the woods and up the driveway, followed by a fawn whose spots are just beginning to fade. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131662/) _2026-08-16 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Heavily overcast at sunrise. A screech owl trills up on the ridge, answered by a trill from down along the road. Moments later, the first patter of rain. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131660/) _2026-08-15 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and clear, with bluebird and cardinal song. The leaves of the tulip tree sapling in my yard are nearly white with dew. I grease my boots. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131658/) _2026-08-14 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Long-sleeve weather at sunrise. A female hummingbird hovers in front of me, then on either side, as if trying to recall where she knows me from. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131655/) _2026-08-13 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and breezy, with everything damp from another rainy night. An indigo bunting sings a few bars and falls silent. An jewelweed stalk still sways from a hummingbird s visit. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131653/) _2026-08-12 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Breezy and cool. The sun glimmers through thin clouds, prompting a Linne s cicada to call—that stuttering buzz. A bluebird sings up by the shed. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131651/) _2026-08-11 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Up late after being woken by a storm in the night. At mid-morning, the sun breaking through thin clouds, everything drips and glistens. A low thrum of crickets. The catbird scolds from the depths of a spicebush. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wi2weSqFdPYk) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131648/) _2026-08-10 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Dawn thunderstorm moving off by sunrise, which a single crow heralds from the dead top of a locust. The first hummingbird arrives at the jewelweed before the rain has quite stopped. Another storm rumbles in the west. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131646/) _2026-08-09 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Overcast and cool. The mid-morning quiet is broken by a fight between titmice, the two protagonists going at each other all around the yard, followed by a noisy chorus of other titmice and chickadees. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131644/) _2026-08-08 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ A yellow walnut leaf spins as it falls, just ahead of the rain—another passing shower. Blades of grass tremble as they re struck. The Carolina wren keeps singing up by the garage. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131642/) _2026-08-07 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ A mourning dove calls from out of the fog, high-pitched and hesitant, as if just learning how to sing. A flower fly is licking my laptop where I rest my wrist. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131639/) _2026-08-06 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Thin fog forms as the rising sun begins warming the humid air and rain-soaked vegetation. I look for the half moon, still high overhead, in a large patch of blue. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131637/) _2026-08-05 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cloudy and humid, with a steady stream of goldfinch and Carolina wren chatter. The sun appears through a hole in the clouds and multiple holes in the forest canopy to strike my face, summoning the demon of a sneeze. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131635/) _2026-08-04 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cold and clear, with dew dripping from the sun-struck roof. The dying lilac is re-greening with bindweed: ladders of heart-shaped leaves. In the woods, between sunbeams, a pewee s bent note. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131633/) _2026-08-03 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Breezy, cool, and very damp. A fledgling chipping sparrow at the woods edge chirps nearly non-stop, pausing only when the sun comes out for a few seconds. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131631/) _2026-08-02 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ A shower tapering off into birdsong. The tulip tree sapling in my yard dances in a light breeze, beads of rain sliding across its leaves but holding on. The sky darkens for another shower. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/08/159131628/) _2026-08-01 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and still, with a white sky and feeble sun. The jewelweed in the dripline of the porch has grown tall enough that I can see as well as hear the occasional hummingbird visitor, sipping nectar from bright orange goblets. At the other end of the yard, all the lilac leaves are turning brown. ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Gr0qnOgTJUFZ) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131626/) _2026-07-30 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Clear, cool, and breezy—a week to the day after our last dry high. Six crows sit on dead branches atop the two tallest locust trees in the yard. One minute past sunrise, they look all around, shift on their perches, and take flight. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131624/) _2026-07-28 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ An hour after sunrise the sky darkens again. At the first close rumble of thunder, a fawn leaps up out of the meadow and dashes into the woods. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131623/) _2026-07-27 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and humid at dawn. I open my laptop to draw the mosquitoes away from my head with a glowing sc​reen. The cardinal begins to sing. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131621/) _2026-07-26 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Sunny and cool. I happen to spot a moment of tenderness between hummingbirds: he buzzing back and forth a few inches from her perch in the eastern red cedar, she tilting her head back for a lightning-fast meeting of tongues. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131618/) _2026-07-25 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Overcast and cool. The aspen sapling in my yard is wound around with bindweed, I notice, and I spend a few minutes removing it—unwinding, as it were. The leaves tremble as only an aspen can do. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131615/) _2026-07-24 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Another clear, autumnal morning, with the temperature around 12C. The grinder at the quarry is having its breakfast of limestone. I marvel at the flies coming to life as the sun strikes. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131613/) _2026-07-23 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Clear and cold at sunrise. The dawn chorus is down to field sparrow, common yellowthroat and goldfinches. Distant crows. A truck jake-breaking through the gap. A red-eyed vireo starts up. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131611/) _2026-07-22 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Overcast and cool. A rain shower comes rustling through the grass as a pileated woodpecker drums up on the ridge. I crush a mosquito, but not before she has bequeathed to me her itch. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131609/) _2026-07-21 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Overcast and cool. Here and there, black walnut leaves are beginning to yellow. A deer foraging at the woods edge breaks into a trot to try to escape her flies. ## [URGENT Message from Umstead Coalition – Comments due to the NC Rules Review Commission by 5pm on Thursday, July 23 on proposed revised Mining Rules created by the Mining Commission](https://natlew.substack.com/p/urgent-message-from-umstead-coalition) _2026-07-20 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ Proposed Rules take away general public comments on all mining applications, take away public hearings on permit modifications, etc. ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ANVja4HHB7oG) _2026-07-20 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131607/) _2026-07-20 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and clear, with sound out of the east: the beeping of quarry trucks and a loud scraping of metal on rock as the sun makes its way through the canopy, prompting a burst of song from a common yellowthroat. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131605/) _2026-07-19 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Cool and clearing after yesterday s storms. A red-bellied woodpecker calls from a dead limb at the top of the tallest black locust, making it sway. Below him on another dead branch, a fledgling is being fed by its mother. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131603/) _2026-07-18 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Breezy and cool, with the smell of smoke a bit diminished. The patter of rain. Three yellow walnut leaves flutter to the ground together. A rumble of thunder. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131601/) _2026-07-17 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ Unseasonably cool with the pall of wildfire smoke over the region. It is as thick as a thin mist and burns my throat. But even though their sun is a lurid red, the goldfinches and a common yellowthroat keep singing. ## [(untitled)](https://morningporch.com/2026/07/159131599/) _2026-07-16 · Dave Bonta · The Morning Porch_ The sky is white, though the weather app insists it s clear: thick haze from wildfires far to the north, I think. Goldfinches dominate the morning soundtrack, beginning to nest just as many of the migrants are wrapping it up. ## [Update on the Wake Stone Triangle Quarry mining permit and the Sunset Clause battle](https://natlew.substack.com/p/update-on-the-wake-stone-triangle) _2026-06-23 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ What do you call withholding key information so others don’t have the full picture? ## [Did Wake Stone intentionally set out to pull off a 50-year "bait and switch" and take land on the Umstead State Park critical acquisition list?](https://natlew.substack.com/p/dec2025-legal-ruling-concludes-wake) _2026-03-27 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ Ruling concludes Wake Stone's 2018 back-door alterations of the Triangle Quarry Mining Permit border on “FRAUDULENT CONDUCT” ... yet they continue to destroy the land. ## [Another win for the TRUTH and for protecting Umstead State Park!](https://natlew.substack.com/p/another-win-for-the-truth-and-for) _2025-12-23 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ NC DEQ will NOT appeal Judge Cole's recent ruling to reinstate the Sunset Clause and buffers on the Wake Stone Triangle Quarry Mining Permit! ## [Part 8: Encroachment by Wake Stone Corporation (aka Vulcan Materials Company) into the William B. Umstead State Park](https://natlew.substack.com/p/part-8-encroachment-by-wake-stone) _2025-12-19 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ Pointers on Crabtree Creek provide additional evidence that Wake Stone has encroached into Umstead State Park, violating federal deed restrictions and more. ## [Request to submit Public Comments on Proposed NC Mining Rule Changes by December 15, 2025](https://natlew.substack.com/p/request-to-submit-public-comments) _2025-12-14 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ The proposed NC Mining Rule changes affect the ENTIRE State of North Carolina, including the Odd Fellows tract (the land adjacent to Umstead State Park that Wake Stone Corporation is trying to mine). ## [Court Rules in Umstead Coalition’s Favor to Restore the 50-year Sunset Clause and Protective Park and Stream Buffers Enshrined in the Original 1981 Quarry Permit](https://natlew.substack.com/p/court-rules-in-umstead-coalitions) _2025-12-05 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ A big win in the RDU-Wake Stone (aka Vulcan Materials) quarry battle.... ## [Written Public Comments due by 15/Dec/2025 regarding the NC Mining Commission’s proposed rule changes](https://natlew.substack.com/p/written-public-comments-due-by-15dec2025) _2025-11-23 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ Rule changes affect the ENTIRE State of North Carolina AND highly favor the mining industry over the public good ## [IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL: PUBLIC HEARING ON REVISIONS TO RULES USED TO IMPLEMENT THE NC MINING LAW](https://natlew.substack.com/p/in-person-and-virtual-public-hearing) _2025-11-16 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ The NC MINING COMMISSION IS REWRITING RULES TO MAKE IT EASIER TO GET A MINING PERMIT, INCLUDING MINIMIZING / ELIMINATING PUBLIC COMMENT ABILITY. ## [Part 7: Encroachment by RDU Airport and Wake Stone Corporation (aka Vulcan Materials Company) Into the William B. Umstead State Park](https://natlew.substack.com/p/part-7-encroachment-by-rdu-airport) _2025-10-23 · The RDU Forest Saga · The RDU Forest Saga_ Assessment of RDU’s 16/May/2024 response denying that a border encroachment issue has occurred