Good Morning

Good Morning

    9/17/25 6:30 53F (11.6C) A lone crow, voice raw and cracking, flys north across the empty vault . The east begins to lighten, first a brilliant blue, brighter than the rest of the sky, changing hue, lavender, orange, yellow, before blending into a...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/16/25 7:00 50F (10C) I look up into the pale blue sky. There is no wind. Birds are chattering,  dogs bark. There are cars moving this morning; tires whirring and the burble of muffled exhaust announce their passing. I slept well last night and...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/15/25 7:00 48F (8.8C) It is a cool morning,  dark  and breezy. The waning quarter moon rests on its back above a maple tree. The eastern sky begins to lighten, shades of lavender creeping into dark blue. A gunshot  booms. A dog begins to bark....
Good Morning

Good Morning

    9/14/25 6:00 59F (15C) No wind. Moon waning into the last quarter. Cloudy with  rain predicted. The rooster is crowing and the  dog is barking. The commotion echoes up the canyon.                    ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/13/25 7:00 55F (12.7C) A calm, cool morning,  absent any wind. The half moon hangs high in a pale, blue sky, beginning the last third of its transit across the southern horizon. A train sounds its horn at the crossing near Pine Grove, loud even at this...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/12/25 6:00 55F (12.7C) It seems dark this morning, even with the waning moon shining high above me. It is a tranquil dawn. Daylight seeps in from the east. A cricket and an owl sing a soft duet in the shadows.              ...