Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
11/7/25 6:30 44F (6.66C) Calm, cloudy, sprinkling The waning moon, just past full, is obscured by clouds. Large, widely spaced drops fall silently from the sky, impacting the saturated ground with a watery splat. ...
Good Morning
11/6/25 7:30 48 (8.8) Cloudy, soggy, calm. Birds twitter through a desultory rain on this relatively warm November morning. Tall firs loom through the mist, which hides the surrounding canyon from view. ...
Good Morning
11/5/25 6:00 46F (7.7C) Dark, damp, and overcast with a slight breeze. The rain has ceased for the moment. A jet rumbled through the clouds, then all was still. The morning feels like a soggy dishrag. Walter punctures the silence with an occasional bark...
Good Morning
11/4/25 5:30 42F (5.5C) Overcast, raining lightly, no wind. Last night's rain is dripping from the trees even as the sky still weeps. ...
Good Morning
11/3/25 8:00 40f Raining. The remaining leaves on the trees are yellow. Almost as many carpet the ground. Enjoying a long soak in the hottub this morning because we bailed on another day camping in the rain and packed it in yesterday. Andy will ...
Good Morning
11/2/25 6:00 40f Overcast and calm out on the lava bed. The weather has moderated. It was still dark when I made the treacherous trek to the latrine. I was relieved when it hove into view. Andy and Kent put some much appreciated effort into its...
Good Morning
11/1/25 8:00 Temperate but raining hard. We had a puddle form by the door last night. It has grown to a lake with a river running into it. Constant rain all night with no hope for it letting up today. The tipi won't draft and is filled with smoke. We had...
Good Morning
10/31/25 8:00 cool calm and beautiful . A lovely sunrise Halloween morning out on The Big Lava Bed after a beautiful moonlit night. Got a slow start this morning and had breakfast for lunch. ...
Good Morning
10/30/25 6:30 34F (1C) Calm, dark, cold. The moon, waxing into the third quarter has long since set, leaving only the stars to challenge the darkness. The thermometer shows 34f, but everything is coated with a thin, bumpy layer of ice. It is the first...
Good Morning
10/29/25 7:00 40F (4.4C) Clearing skies with a slight, cool breeze. The deck is littered with wet leaves, slick from last night's rain. Walter is conversing with the neighborhood dogs. It is good to be home. ...
