Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
3/29/26 5:30 40F (4.4C) Cloudy and calm. It was quiet until the dog across the road started yapping. That set Walter off, which irritated the rooster. Once he had asserted his authority, Walter settled down and the rooster went back to sleep. A night...
Good Morning
3/28/26 5:45 37F (2.7C) Partially clear, no wind and no frost. Less noise and fewer stars than yesterday. ...
Good Morning
3/27/26 5:15 30F (-1C) The orchard fans are roaring, the night is black. Frost coats the earth. Overhead a Carl Sagan sky stretches to infinity, filled with stars. How many? Billions and billions. ...
Lodgepoles
Lodgepoles leaning on an oak one, more recently peeled, stands waiting bright and yellow against weathered, silver wood.
Good Morning
3/26/26 6:00 32F (0C) Cold, clear and calm. It was dark when I got up but dawn's light is rapidly leaking into the sky. An icy frost coats the morning. Orchard fans are thundering all around me. Now the birds have all decided to wake at once, competing...
Good Morning
3/25/26 6:00 44F (6.66C) Calm, quiet, mostly cloudy with a ring of clear sky around the bottom. Yesterday's rain has stopped, for now. Walter waited patiently for me on the back deck while I dawdled making tea and feeding the cat. Amy gets home from...
Good Morning
3/23/26 7:30 32F (0C) It is a calm, quiet morning. Ice coats the deck, bumpy and slick. There is just the slightest of breezes and a thin, high overcast furs the sky. Birds converse in low voices. I just plucked a box elder beetle from my hair. The...
Good Morning
3/22/26 6:00 30F (-1C) Calm, clear and frosty. Birds sing against the fluttering background rumble of distant orchard fans. A turkey calls in the woods across the street. A duck rises from the pond and flies off quacking. Walter growls, barking...
Good Afternoon
It was shirtsleeve weather and sunny in town, pretty mild for the second day of spring. Mike and I decided to go look for snow. We found it at 3000' in the Gifford Pinchot. There was no snow below that level and ice flows covering the road above that. Satisfied, we...
Good Morning
3/21/26 5:30 48F (8.8C) Faint breeze with stronger gusts. Clear and starry above, surrounded by a ring of low clouds The nieghbor was walking around his farm with a flashlight, which piqued Walter's interest. He's gone inside and the dog has...
