Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/2/26 6:00 56f (13.3c) Clear sky, calm, cool air. The light is slow to arrive. The morning star hangs against a lavender backdrop, low in the east. This morning feels like summer ending. It won’t feel that way this afternoon, when temperatures  climb...
A Day In the Woods

A Day In the Woods

We had been hearing rumors of boletes being found at higher elevations, so Amy loaded Michael,  Walter and me into the CrossTrek and we headed north of Trout Lake.                              ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/1/25 7:00 58f (14.4c) Light breeze with a thin, broken cloud cover. The hot tub chemicals need adjusting, so I  have to wait a few minutes for my soak.                              ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/31/25 6:30 58f (14.4c) It is a quiet Sunday morning, partly cloudy, with the subdued chatter of birds remeniscent of the low murmer of an audience settling in before a show begins. Somewhere  behind the curtain  of oaks, a dove coos....
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/30/25 7:00 58f (14.4c) Calm. A vestige of the wildfire haze that settled in last evening still remains. It lends a golden tinge to the morning light. It is quiet  now. Earlier,  the crews were banging ladders in the orchards and Walter was leading the...