Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
9/4/25 7:00 67F (19.4C) It is a warm, overcast morning with no wind. I have a busy day. Walter has an appointment with the hairdresser this morning, and I need to get the bike cleaned up and ready. I'm doing taxi service with Russ at the...
Good Morning
9/3/25 6:00 60f (15.5c) It is a pretty morning. Faint breeze, mostly clear sky with clouds still deciding what they want to do. A squirrel and a jay had a brief but vociferous argument in the maple. Walter is having a desultory discussion with the neighbor's dogs,...
Good Morning
9/2/26 6:00 56f (13.3c) Clear sky, calm, cool air. The light is slow to arrive. The morning star hangs against a lavender backdrop, low in the east. This morning feels like summer ending. It won't feel that way this afternoon, when temperatures climb above 90f...
Good Morning
9/1/25 7:00 58f (14.4c) Light breeze with a thin, broken cloud cover. The hot tub chemicals need adjusting, so I have to wait a few minutes for my soak. ...
Good Morning
8/31/25 6:30 58f (14.4c) It is a quiet Sunday morning, partly cloudy, with the subdued chatter of birds remeniscent of the low murmer of an audience settling in before a show begins. Somewhere behind the curtain of oaks, a dove coos.
Good Morning
8/30/25 7:00 58f (14.4c) Calm. A vestige of the wildfire haze that settled in last evening still remains. It lends a golden tinge to the morning light. It is quiet now. Earlier, the crews were banging ladders in the orchards and Walter was leading the...
Good Morning
8/29/25 7:00 59f (15c) It is a quiet, calm morning. The sky is filled with torn clouds, ripped and shredded like a...
Good Morning
8/28/25 6:00 60f (15.5c) The sky is clear and blue. There is no wind. Sprayers whine in the distance. The dog is baying and the rooster is crowing. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
8/27/25 6:30 68f (20c) Cloudy with light rain just starting. The forecast has changed: a little rain is predicted this morning with clearing later and a high today of 82f (27.7c). I didn't bring my laundry in...
Good Morning
8/26/25 6:00 65f (18.3c) Still air with broken pink and white clouds against a blue background. Another hot day is forecast. After spending time in the silence of the backwoods, the sprayers' whine sounds exceptionally loud this morning. ...
