Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
5/12/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Calm, partly cloudy. Clouds dot the blue sky like tufts of cottonwood dander drifting by. A robin buzzed me, so low I felt the breeze of his wings beating the air. Amy is home from California. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
5/11/26 6:00 43F (6C) A clear, windless morning, calm and quiet. The waning crescent moon floats ghost-like between the trees. A swallow glides by, white belly shining in the sun. The water casks have been soaking overnight. They still leak but are...
Good Morning
5/10/26 6:30 48F (8.8C) Calm air, cloudy sky. Tattered white clouds open and shut across a pale blue sky. The sun has climbed above the ridge. Birds twitter, the dog barks, squirrels run up and down the oaks. It is a mellow Sunday rising. Good morning....
Good Morning
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 Morning
5/8/26 5:00 48F (8.8C) Cloudy with an attempt at a slight breeze. Rightous birdsong fills the morning, still cloaked in the dull blue light preceding dawn. The little black banty didn't make curfew last night and is wandering the chicken yard complaining...
Good Morning
5/7/26 6:15 51F (10.5C) Blue sky ringed with clouds.No wind, no rain. Birds chatter in the otherwise quiet morning. Twenty minutes pass. The neighbor's dog begins to yap, raising Walter's vocal ire. The rooster crows. Birds are singing. The sun crests...
Good Morning
5/6/26 6:00 51F(10.5C) Clear sky, dry, no wind. I had poor sleep last night. First night on a brand new mattress. Early to bed and out like a light. Marvelous. Walter got left outside when we went to bed. Around 2:00 he let us know we had forgotten...
Good Morning
5/5/26 6:00 54F (12.2C) Calm, clear, dry. The birds started up at first light, about an hour ago, just as the moon, waning gibbous, touched the southwest rim of the canyon. A turkey is calling. The rooster is awake. The dogs have been talking, but they...
Good Morning
5/4/26 6:15 52F (11.1C) A slight breeze ripples the willows against a backdrop of pale blue. Walter's barking sounds disgruntled and half-hearted. The birds twitter and chirp in subdued tones. An orchard sprayer whines far down the way, somewhere north...
Good Morning
5/3/26 7:15 50F (10C) Clear, blue sky. No wind. The sun has just topped the ridge. I slept in after a late night. Amy is still in bed. We went to hear the Tad Robinson Blues Band at Double Mountain, a show Squirrel put on. A good time was had by all. ...
