Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/3/26 40F (4.4C) 3:00 – 4:45 full moon eclipsed like  a round, pink, salmon egg. I slept through my alarm and almost missed the eclipse. It was a red ember when I got outside. Descending into the tops of the oaks, it went from a glowing red...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/2/26 5:00 34F (1C) Clear and calm. The moon, waxing to full, round and bright against the dark sky, hangs above the west ridge between Willow Flat and Middle Mountain. Early tomorrow morning there will be a lunar eclipse. As the nieghbors begin to...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/1/26 6:30 35F (1.6C) Calm with broken overcast. The sky is incompletely hidden behind ragged white tufts. The clouds look like stuffing pulled from a dog’s toy. Dawn was beginning to lighten the sky. I rolled over to check the clock just as the...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/28/26 5:45 29F (- 1.6C) Cold, mostly  clear with a slight breeze. It is quiet and dark. The light breeze has not moved the strand of clouds hanging over the trees to the southwest. Overhead it is clear and dark. The moon, waxing gibbous, set hours ago,...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/27/26 5:45 30F (-1C) Clear and calm.  Out my bedroom window I saw a dark indigo sky filled with stars, but by the time I finished with my morning ablutions the predawn glow had chased them away. With the passing of a sparrow’s fart, the trills...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    2/26/26 6:30 28F (-2.2C) Clear and frozen,  with a slight breeze. The morning was brilliant, glowing violet, lavender and blue. It has settled down to a bright, brittle blue with a few wisps of clouds around the edges. Birds are flitting about,...