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...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/23/26 7:30 32F (0C) It is a calm, quiet morning. Ice coats the deck, bumpy and slick. There is just the slightest of breezes and a thin, high overcast furs the sky. Birds converse in low voices. I just plucked a box elder beetle from my hair. The...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/22/26 6:00 30F (-1C) Calm,  clear and frosty. Birds sing against the fluttering background rumble of distant  orchard fans. A turkey calls in the woods across the street. A duck rises from the pond and flies off quacking. Walter growls, barking...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/21/26 5:30 48F (8.8C) Faint breeze with stronger gusts. Clear and starry above, surrounded by a ring of low clouds The nieghbor was walking around his farm with a flashlight,  which piqued Walter’s interest. He’s gone inside and the...
First Day of Spring

First Day of Spring

    3/20/26 7:15 46F (7.7C) White tufts rip free of the cloud bank to the west and sail across the blue expanse above me. Doves compete with the other birds in an impromptu This Morning’s Got Talent show while the dogs in the canyon bark loud applause....