Poems & Other Lies

Poems & Other Lies

Good Morning

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...

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Good Morning

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.                              ...

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Good Morning

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.  

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Good Morning

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...

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Good Morning

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...

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Good Morning

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.                      ...

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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...

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Good Morning

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.     ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      8/25/25 7:30 54f(13.3c) The sky is not as clear as it has been. The morning is pleasant, maybe even a little chilly, but a haze is present, clouds or perhaps smoke.                      ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

        8/24/25 7:00 52f (11.11c) Blue sky with light broken clouds. We went for a short walk involving some bushwhacking this morning, after caffeinating ourselves.                      ...

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