Good Morning

The Writer, Vernon Wade

Vernon Wade is a poet, author and freelancer. He has been published in The Gorge Literary Journal, Dualsport Rider Magazine, Hack’d Magazine, The Sidecarist, ROB Magazine and The Hood River News.

The world fills him with wonder. When he looks at the sky he is lifted into flights of fancy, when he stares at the earth he is drawn beneath its surface. He is delighted to find the macrocosm and the microcosm equally mesmerizing.

5/9/26 6:00 47F (8.3C) Clear sky with just a tickle of a breeze.

The ground is littered with stringy yellow-green flowers, fallen from the oaks. We will likely have a bumper crop of acorns come autumn.

The corn starts I put in the ground yesterday look good and I see a few more that have come up from the seeds I planted last month. The pumpkins are also surviving, but are still small enough the slugs could get them.

Amy heads to California this morning to see her mother. Walter and I will keep an eye on things here. I see some weeding in my future.

Good morning.