Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
9/9/25 6:30 60F (15.5C) Calm with broken clouds. It's not raining, but quite wet from last night's downpour. A faint riffle of breeze sends a brief torrent of droplets raining down from the leaves. ...
Good Morning
9/8/25 5:00 50F (10C) The moon is behind the oaks, the sky is full of stars. ...
Good Morning
9/7/25 5:00 59F (15C) The deck is wet from last night's thunderstorm, but the sky is clear and peppered with stars. No wind stirs the leaves. The morning stillness hums with crickets. Backlighting the oaks, a full moon drops toward the western ridge....
Good Morning
9/6/25 6:00 66F (18.8C) Windless and overcast. Although it's not as dark as yesterday, the moon, one day from full, remains hidden behind clouds. Weather report looks a little dodgy, with warm humidity and possibly rain predicted. ...
Good Morning
9/5/25 5:30 65F (18.3C) The crickets are in full song. It is a dark morning, no light from the nearly full moon escapes the heavy clouds. A sheet of white flashed behind Indian Head Mountain to the south, followed after a long pause by the rumble of distant...
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.
