Good Morning

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

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

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

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...
Good Morning

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...