Good Morning

Good Morning

by | Apr 30, 2026

    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

Good Morning

by | Apr 29, 2026

    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

Good Morning

by | Apr 28, 2026

  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

by | Apr 27, 2026

    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

by | Apr 26, 2026

    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...