Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/12/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Calm, partly cloudy. Clouds dot the blue sky like tufts of cottonwood dander drifting by. A robin buzzed me, so low I felt the breeze of his wings beating the air. Amy is home from California. Good morning.      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/11/26 6:00 43F (6C) A clear,  windless morning,  calm and quiet. The waning crescent moon floats ghost-like between the trees. A swallow glides by, white belly shining in the sun. The water casks have been soaking overnight. They still leak but are...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/10/26 6:30 48F (8.8C) Calm air, cloudy sky. Tattered white clouds open and shut across a pale blue sky. The sun has climbed above the ridge. Birds twitter,  the dog barks, squirrels run up and down the oaks. It is a mellow Sunday rising. Good morning....
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/9/26 6:00 47F (8.3C) Clear sky with just a  tickle of a breeze. The ground is littered with stringy yellow-green flowers, fallen from the oaks. We will likely have a bumper crop of acorns come autumn. The corn starts I put in the ground yesterday look...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/8/26 5:00 48F (8.8C) Cloudy with an attempt at a slight breeze. Rightous birdsong fills the morning, still cloaked in the dull blue light preceding dawn. The little black banty didn’t make curfew last night and is wandering the chicken yard...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/7/26 6:15 51F (10.5C) Blue sky ringed with clouds.No wind, no rain. Birds chatter in the otherwise quiet morning. Twenty minutes pass. The neighbor’s dog begins to yap, raising Walter’s vocal ire. The rooster crows. Birds are singing. The...