‘A Reverse Mushroom Cloud’

Bellavue, Pennsylvania, Friday July 11, 2025

The Great cherry tree on Florence Avenue, that gables this century and a half old brick home, drops leaves from June through November. I rake and sweep the lance leaves into the street for Punky while her son is in his sick bed. Two doors up the street is still cobblestone. As I loom up that way at 1:55 PM, I see, beyond the high ridge, pluming up from …