Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/17/26 7:00 56F (13.3C) AQI 57 Blue sky, no wind. The Grasshopper fire is over 90,000 acres and 47% contained as of last night. Good morning.                                  ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/16/26 7:00 61F (16C) AQI 54 Slightly hazy blue sky with no breeze. Good morning.                                                  ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/15/26 6:15 61F (16C) AQI 68 It smells cleaner today, and the haze is barely discernable. A brief rain squall blew through last night. This morning scattered clouds dot a windless, blue sky. Good morning.                ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/12/26 5:45 62F (16.6C) AQI 32 The sky is hazy blue in the dull light of dawn.  It is calm and windless, smelling faintly of smoke. Good morning.                                ...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

8/11/26 The wind being favorable and the wildfire smoke having abated, Walter, Mike and I decided to spend the day by a stream in the woods. We arrived late morning and found we had the place to ourselves. Except for Cocaine Bear. Quickly retrieving our bear guns, we...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  8/8/26 5:30 59F (15C) AQI 80 Walter rests on the deck; the fingernail moon reclines on a maple branch overhead. There is a breeze, and the air quality index has improved,  but smoke lies in the canyon and it smells worse than yesterday.  Like a campfire someone...