Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
12/14/25 7:30 38F (3.3C) Partially cloudy, cool, calm, with thick fog in the canyon. There was a brief flash of brilliant color as the sun was about to crest the ridge, then it darkened, the sky turned gray and the fog closed in around me. A lonely goose is...
Good Morning
12/13/25 6:30 42F (5.5C) Overcast with heavy dew. Fog is eddying into the canyon, flowing through the trees from all directions. I woke up at two and lay there in bed for awhile. I decided to try some meditation. I had a good breathing rhythmn going...
Good Morning
12/12/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) Cool and dry with a slight breeze. It seems dark, but only a few stars are visible. The moon in its final quarter dominates the cloudless sky. Walter, duty bound, has found something to bark at, but he lacks enthusiasm . ...
Good Morning
12/11/25 6:00 58F (14.4C) Dry, blustery, dark. A warm wind soughs through the trees, not steady, but regular, like the huffing gasps of a man climbing a steep hill. Mid transit, high in the south, the half moon glows through a thin gauze of clouds. Over...
Good Morning
12/10/25 6:30 58F (14.4C) Wild, warm, and windy. The moon, waning towards half, is playing hide and seek in the clouds. It is blowing hard. Maple seeds spiral to the ground and the few remaining oak leaves are ripped from their branches. Warm wind...
Good Morning
12/9/25 5:45 48F (8.8C) Raining. The waning moon, three quarters full, shines dolly through the clouds above the lodge poles. It is a dark, sodden morning. ...
Good Morning
12/8/25 6:30 46F (7.7C) Faint breeze, overcast with intermittent rain. I was informed it was time to get up by the dog licking my elbow. Good morning, Walter. ...
Good Morning
12/7/25 6:45 45F (7.2C) Damp, gray, still. An owl calls from the darkness somewhere beyond the front yard. A solitary duck quacks, trailing off to a quiet mutter. A desultory rain is falling, tap tapping the dead leaves like a metronome keeping time in...
Good Morning
12/6/25 5:30 50F (10C) It is a warm moonlit morning with a fresh Chinook Wind blowing. I can almost taste the ocean in the breeze. I hear it coming through the firs on the ridge. Arriving, it gusts through the naked oaks and swirls the heaps of leaves at...
Good Morning
12/5/25 5:30 46F (7.7C) Raining, sometimes lightly, sometimes hard, but consistently wet. It is a gray morning, barely illuminated by a full moon hidden behind the clouds. I am sipping mint tea and watching headlights pass. Are my nieghbors sitting in...
