Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
10/28/26 7:15 44F (6.66C) AQI 29 Overcast with steady rain. A quarter inch is predicted for today. Looks like we will set up in the rain. The truck is packed and ready to go. Perhaps we will find a fresh bloom of mushrooms. That would go well with our...
Good Morning
10/27/26 6:15 45F (7.2C) AQI 25 Cloudy. No wind. It is sprinkling. It's been raining off and on all night. The full moon ghosts through thin clouds. An owl is hooting softly down by the creek. Coyotes up on Willow Flat have set all the dogs to barking. Good...
Good Morning
10/26/26 5:45 43F (6.1C) AQI 24 Dark, windless and wet. Walter is quiet. He has probably found a dry nook in which to hide. The rain is tapering off, water tapping through the leaves makes a welcome sound. Low in the west the full moon glows dimly through the...
Good Morning
10/25/26 7:30 36F (2.2C) AQI 20 Pink clouds dot the blue morning sky. No wind stirs the trees. The thermometer reads 36F but it feels colder. There has been activity at the vacation farm/distillery across the street. The absentee landlord from Seattle showed...
Good Morning
10/24/26 5:30 33F (.55C) AQI 19 Full moon, waxing gibbous. The deck boards, shrunken with the dry cold, rattle beneath my feet. I had hoped to bathe in moonlight, but I missed it by half an hour. The still night sky is filled with stars. No bird calls, no...
Good Morning
10/23/26 47F (8.3C) AQI 20 Clear, blue and dim. A light breeze rattles the oak leaves, swaying the willows and birch. Night begins to retreat from the first incursions of dawn. Jupiter and Mars shine in the south, still accompanied by a few flickering stars. A...
Good Morning
10/22/26 39F (3.8C) AQI 54 It is a cool, damp morning. No rain, but gray with clouds and clammy. I gathered some pine needles and small branches to place on the coals in the Weber inside the lodge. It took half an hour to smolder into flames. Now it is...
Good Morning
10/21/26 5:45 35F (1.6C) AQI 36 Cold, dark and starry. The moon,three quarters full, was waxing bright last night, but now it's gone to bed, leaving only starlight to fill the dark and windless void in the wee hours of morn. As beautiful as it is, I find myself...
Good Morning
10/20/26 5:45 41F (5C) AQI 21 Stars blink through shifting clouds. No wind, no creatures moving in the dark. Aside from the whiring tires of the occasional passing car, it is very quiet. Walter, satisfied with the results of his earlier patrol, rests on...
Good Morning
10/19/26 7:00 43F (6.1C) AQI 18 Hints of pink decorate the grey overcast. A light, intermittent breeze ripples through the trees, fluttering leaves as it passes. Good morning. ...
