Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
5/3/26 7:15 50F (10C) Clear, blue sky. No wind. The sun has just topped the ridge. I slept in after a late night. Amy is still in bed. We went to hear the Tad Robinson Blues Band at Double Mountain, a show Squirrel put on. A good time was had by all. ...
Good Morning
5/2/26 6:15 54F (12.2C) Calm. Quiet, if you can ignore the birds and the dog. The sky is a uniform pale gray, like an old cotton sheet or a dress shirt past retirement. Rain is predicted this evening. From the marks in the dust, it looks like it...
Good Morning
5/1/26 5:45 43F (6C) Birds sing in a pale blue morning shaded pink around the edges. A light breeze sways the birch. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
4/30/26 4:45 41F (5C) The sky is clear and dark, pierced by stars. The moon should be nearly full. I expected it to be shining brightly in the southwest, but it must be too low, behind the ridge. The birds are just beginning to stir. It was quiet until...
Good Morning
4/29/26 6:00 39F (3.8C) Clear, blue sky. A whisper of breeze, heavy dew on the deck. The orchard fans are rumbling again. The birds are a little slow to wake this morning. Perhaps the moon, nearly full last night, disturbed their sleep. ...
Good Morning
4/28/26 5:45 44F (6.66C) Clear with tattered pink clouds moving across a light blue sky. A jay preens himself as an inconstant breeze stirs the willows. The birds sound like an orchestra warming up, playing scales and fragments of stanza. Amidst the honks and...
Good Morning
4/27/26 5:30 42F (5.5C) Mostly clear with the tickle of a breeze. Birds sing in the dull luminosity of dawn. Somewhere, a woodpecker is hammering. Walter has done his lap of the perimeter, barking where necessary. Now he rests wachfully on the deck....
Good Morning
4/26/26 6:30 42F (5.5C) The city is quiet for a city. The sirens settled down last night and there is little traffic moving this early on a Sunday morning. Amy is sleeping. We came north to Seattle for my aunt's burial yesterday. My brother Dave...
Good Morning
4/25/26 5:00 38F (3.3C) Clear and calm. Stars dot the dark blue sky above. Birds are bursting with the morning gossip, vying to be heard over the loud rattle of orchard fans. Walter, still exhausted from yesterday's excursion, sprawls sleeping on the...
Good Morning
4/24/26 6:45 36F (2.2C) Clear, calm, and beautiful. I am surrounded by the thunder of orchard fans. Three ducks wheel overhead, twisting and turning, describing great arcs and figure eights as they fly through blue sky tinged with pink. Where are they...
