Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
6/22/25 7:00 42f (5.5c) Overcast, light breeze, no rain at the moment. We got ice pellets again yesterday evening, followed by hard rain, tapering to sprinkles and squalls. This morning everything is damp but dig down an inch or six and it is dry as...
Good Morning
Happy Solstice. 6/20/25 4:45 a.m. Feels like about 40f. Brisk but calm this morning. Funny light, I can't tell if the sky is clear or overcast. We are camped in a little draw downstream from Musser Reservoir. Up at a quarter to five to climb the hill behind camp and...
Good Morning
6/21/25 6:30 32f Blue sky and faint breeze for now. The sun has topped the ridge and I can feel a breeze beginning to stir. It will be blowing up the canyon soon. We experienced some weird weather for the Solstice yesterday. Started warm and sunny. Clouds blew in...
Good Morning
6/19/25 6:00 49f (9.4c) The moon slips into the last quarter, almost unnoticed in a serene blue sky. Faint strands of mares tails float by. Tractors pull sprayers whining through the rows. Up the hill, too impatient to wait or perhaps traversing...
Good Morning
6/18/25 6:30 61f(16f) The last bites of spring are melting into summer, like a couple spoonfuls of ice cream, unfinished on the plate. Due south, midway in her transit, the half moon wanes toward the last quarter against a backdrop of blue. The sun...
Good Morning
6/17/25 7:30 55f (12.7c) The cottonwoods are done blooming but little tufts of fluff still drift, glowing silvery in the morning sunlight, dancing on a faint, invisible breeze. ...
Good Morning
6/16/25 6:30 59f(15c) Clear, blue sky. Morning wakes slowly, easily, its respiration still faint, even as its pulse begins to quicken and the world begins to stir.
Good Morning
6/15/25 7:00 52f (11c) Sunshine and dogs barking under a clear, blue sky. All of the dogs. Barking. Up and down the canyon. ...
Good Morning
6/14/25 6:00 45f (9c) Blue sky, calm at the moment, with protests predicted for later in the day. No kings today. No kings ever. Support the...
Good Morning
6/13/25 Friday the Thirteenth 6:45 a.m. Blue sky, slightly breezy.The ravens are calling to you. Check out time is noon. I went to bed last night at o'drunk-thirty. The lake is like glass - I should go kayaking, maybe do a little fishing, but...
Good Morning
6/12/25 6:00 52f (11c) No wind. Blue sky and swallows. I don't smell smoke this morning. Hopefully they have the fires in the gorge under control. They reopened Highway 14 and the freeway, so that's a good sign. ...
Good Morning
6/11/25 5:15 60f (15.5c) outside, 74f (23.3c) inside the house. Calm and quiet, blue sky covered with white lace. ...
Good Morning
6/10/25 5:00 57f(13.9c) Clear blue sky, no wind, an abundance of robins, all with someplace to go. It's 73f (22.7c) inside the house. ...
Good Morning
6/9/25 4:30 64f (17.7c) It is twenty degrees cooler now than it was when I went to bed last night, but the house feels stifling. ...
A Morning Walk
6/8/25 9:00 75f (28.8c) Walter and I took a short walk up Swyers Drive this morning, while it was still cool enough to enjoy it. ...
