Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/29/26 5:30 40F (4.4C) Cloudy and calm. It was quiet until the dog across the road started yapping. That set Walter off, which irritated the rooster. Once he had asserted his authority, Walter settled down and the rooster went back to sleep. A night...
Good Morning

Good Morning

        3/28/26 5:45 37F (2.7C) Partially clear, no wind and no frost. Less noise and fewer stars than yesterday.                                      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/27/26 5:15 30F (-1C) The orchard fans are roaring, the night is black. Frost coats the earth. Overhead a Carl Sagan sky stretches to infinity,  filled with stars. How many? Billions and billions.                ...
Politics in Rural America

Politics in Rural America

Walter and I came across a committee of vultures on our morning walk. They were taking turns sunning themselves in the road and eviscerating an unfortunate possum, a victim, no doubt, of voting against his own self interest. The birds, with heads wrinkled and as red...
Lodgepoles

Lodgepoles

Lodgepoles leaning on an oak one, more recently peeled, stands waiting bright and yellow against weathered, silver wood.