Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/21/25 6:45 38F (3.3C) Light breeze, new moon, overcast. Cool, damp and grey. I scrubbed the stale taste of last night’s dreams from my mouth and my tea is washing the flavor of toothpaste away. Soaking in the darkness I listen to the whir of tires on...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  10/2/25 6:30 45F (7.2C) It’s a little cloudy but calm. We must have gotten more rain. The deck is wet again. There is a bird calling from the oaks I haven’t heard before.  It’s like a jungle sound track. Short repetitive call, like a...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      9/29/25 5:30 57(13.8) It’s dark, starting to sprinkle and presumably overcast. The weather is changing. No wind stirs the air but occasionally an acorn let’s go and plummets rattling through the branches to smack the ground. Far up the...
Day and Night

Day and Night

  A gust blows through the not quite bare oaks, filling the air with swirling leaves. Clouds part and the sun slants bright golden light through the pouring rain. Coyotes whoop in the dark, then fall still. Their echoing cries fade to silence. The bright stars...