Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/21/25 6:30 33F (0.55C) Clear, calm, cold. It is just above freezing yet the deck has a veneer of ice. What a beautiful dawn. The sky, clear behind a thin, nearly invisible gauze, is brightening through pastel shades of pink and blue. A small bird whistles...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/20/25 6:00 42F (5.5C) Dark, moonless and cloudy. It was raining lightly but now it has stopped.  It is a very quiet morning. I wonder what that damn dog is up to?                        ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      11/19/25 6:30 31F (-0.55C) Partially cloudy and still.  The stars are fleeing the dawning light. It is a very frosty morning.  I think it is the first hard freeze we have had this season.                ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    11/18/25 5:30 34F (1.1C) Dry, light breeze, broken clouds with a few stars showing through. Amy’s up a little early and the lights are on, lending a cheery illumination to the early morning.                ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/17/25 5:30 49F (9.4C) Cloudy, dark, raining lightly. By 6:00 the rain had stopped and fog was creeping in around rhe edges of the canyon. I put Walter back in the house. He’s eating breakfast and now everything out here is silent. If it weren’t...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  11/16/25 5:00 45F (7.2C) Still, dark, partially cloudy. Not a whisper this morning,  nothing moving, no one talking. Low in the east, a splinter of moon shines through the crotch of the maple. Soon, perhaps  tomorrow, it will wane away to nothing.    ...