Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
2/1/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast, relatively dry, no wind. Somewhere behind the clouds the full moon is hiding. 42F (5.5C) is pretty damned warm for before sunrise on the first day of February. It was a quiet Sunday morning until the folks living in the RV...
Good Morning
1/31/26 6:00 40F (4.4C) Calm, cloudy, dry. It is a dark morning. Niether moon nor stars can pierce the cloud cover. The only light comes from the glare of the neighbor's paranoid light. Walter has returned from his tour of the perimeter. The rooster crowing...
Good Morning
1/30/26 7:30 40F (4.4C) Calm air, fog, not raining. Yesterday it rained all day. Not hard, but persistently. Wood smoke hung on the ground, clinging to the trees and pooling in the low spots and swales in the orchards, mixing with the light fog....
Good Morning
1/29/26 6:30 34F (1C) Cloudy and raining. It is a sodden, drizzly morning. Even the owl, calling through the darkness, sounds wet.
Good Morning
1/28/26 6:15 28F (-2.2C) Dark, silent, cold, with a thin overcast and light freezing rain. The deck is pimpled with ice. Only a couple stars pierce the gloom. I am anticipating a trip to the dentist with some trepidation. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
1/27/26 6:30 24F (-5.5C) Dim, thin overcast, no wind. It is a quiet morning. Frozen and icy. If there were more light, it would sparkle. I can smell the cold ash of last night's fire. Walter Dawg is on watch. A silent sentry, his shadowed form backlit by the...
Good Morning
1/26/26 7:00 22F (-5.5C) Cold and cloudy. The birds are waking up, their chattering and whistles subdued and muted. Dawn is sneaking in through the dim, gray shadows with barely a whisper. ...
Good Morning
1/25/26 7:45 17F (-8.3C) Calm, partially cloudy but mostly clear, hard frost, no wind. The sun is still behind Fir Mountain. I am surrounded by a ring of low lying clouds with blue sky overhead. There is no wind. Birds are twittering. A jay squawks as it...
Good Morning
1/24/26 7:00 24F (-4.4C) Clear, calm, frozen. Frost bites at my fingers. The edge of my ear stings with cold. Ice forms in my damp hair. It is just getting light out. A beautiful day is dawning. My schedule has filled up and it looks like a busy...
Good Morning
1/23/26 6:00 29F (1.6 C) Dark, foggy, calm. There was ice on the surface of the cat's water dish this morning. No cars moving yet. There is a light on at the farmhouse across the street. It was quiet out here until Walter heard something I didn't. Now it's not....
