Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/10/26 5:30 48F (8.8C) Cloudy. No wind. The moon is hiding. The air is thick with pollen and the smell of fresh mown grass. No fans or sprayers yet this morning. The songbirds have center stage with a turkey calling in the distance.      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/9/26 5:30 39F (3.8C) A clear and windless dawn. The waning half moon floats over the southeastern rim of the canyon. This morning clamors with a thousand birds, two frogs and the incessant whine of one really loud orchard sprayer. Walter can’t...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/8/26 5:30 41F (5C)  Clear sky with no wind.  The moon is waning gibbous, low and due south, above the head of the canyon. The frogs have surrendered the stage to a chorus of birds who are enthusiastically serenading the dawn. Walter Dawg keeps watch as...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/7/26 6:30 54F (12C) Mostly clear blue with pink shading a few wisps of clouds.  A light breeze is rising, then losing its ambition, fades away. The moon is three-quarters and waning .  It peeks through the pines as it sets. The oaks are budding.  The...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/6/26 5:45 45F (7.2C) Warm and calm. The moon wanes gibbous, low in the south and at the end of its transit above the canyon. Spring is near bursting this morning, tumescent with biological imperative. The predawn dark is filled with trills and...