Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
11/10/25 5:30 38F (3.3C) Cold, clear, windless. Jupiter is keeping Luna company this morning. It is calm but thirty-eight degrees feels chilly in the cold, white light of the waning moon. ...
Good Morning
11/9/25 7:00 36F (2.2C) Cool, calm, and clear. The sky is blue, rimmed with pink. The moon, still three-quarters full, drops towards the west, slipping behind the oaks. The maple looks almost skeletal, its leaves covering the ground below. But...
Good Morning
11/8/25 6:00 40F (4.4C) The moon waning gibbous, glows dimly through a thin gauze of clouds. I feel a cool breeze on my cheek and the back of my hand, blowing gently from the northeast. ...
Good Morning
11/7/25 6:30 44F (6.66C) Calm, cloudy, sprinkling The waning moon, just past full, is obscured by clouds. Large, widely spaced drops fall silently from the sky, impacting the saturated ground with a watery splat. ...
Good Morning
11/6/25 7:30 48 (8.8) Cloudy, soggy, calm. Birds twitter through a desultory rain on this relatively warm November morning. Tall firs loom through the mist, which hides the surrounding canyon from view. ...
Good Morning
11/5/25 6:00 46F (7.7C) Dark, damp, and overcast with a slight breeze. The rain has ceased for the moment. A jet rumbled through the clouds, then all was still. The morning feels like a soggy dishrag. Walter punctures the silence with an occasional bark...
Good Morning
11/4/25 5:30 42F (5.5C) Overcast, raining lightly, no wind. Last night's rain is dripping from the trees even as the sky still weeps. ...
Good Morning
11/3/25 8:00 40f Raining. The remaining leaves on the trees are yellow. Almost as many carpet the ground. Enjoying a long soak in the hottub this morning because we bailed on another day camping in the rain and packed it in yesterday. Andy will ...
Good Morning
11/2/25 6:00 40f Overcast and calm out on the lava bed. The weather has moderated. It was still dark when I made the treacherous trek to the latrine. I was relieved when it hove into view. Andy and Kent put some much appreciated effort into its...
Good Morning
11/1/25 8:00 Temperate but raining hard. We had a puddle form by the door last night. It has grown to a lake with a river running into it. Constant rain all night with no hope for it letting up today. The tipi won't draft and is filled with smoke. We had...
