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.        
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/26/26 6:00 32F (0C) Cold, clear and calm. It was dark when I got up but dawn’s light is rapidly leaking into the sky. An icy frost coats the morning. Orchard fans are thundering all around me. Now the birds have all decided to wake at once,...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/25/26 6:00 44F (6.66C) Calm, quiet, mostly cloudy with a ring of clear sky around the bottom. Yesterday’s  rain has stopped,  for now. Walter waited patiently for me on the back deck while I  dawdled making tea and feeding the cat. Amy gets home...