Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/17/26 6:30 41F (5C) Clear, windless, beautiful. It rained last night. It rained hard most of the day yesterday and off and on all last week. The sun is rising in a clear, blue sky. It is calm. The birds are singing as if the storm had never happened....
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/16/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast,  gray, raining lightly. I believe it rained all night. It has been a damp week. I don’t know how long it will last, but it has got to be good for the immediate future. The woods need the moisture. We have already...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/15/26 45F (7.2C) Broken cloud cover drifts above wet ground. It rained some more last night. An inconstant breeze flutters the oaks’ leaves, making them shimmer. A crow caws over the cooing of doves, like the rasping smoker’s voice of a bar...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/14/26 5:45 49F (9.4C) Cloudy.  Calm, no rain. I think I will put some more corn in the ground this morning. If the wind doesn’t come up, I’ll burn the blackberry briars I cleared from around the rabbit hutch yesterday. Perhaps I  should go...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/13/26 6:00 50F (10C) Mostly cloudy,  windy, damp. A solitary spring storm to punctuate the drought. Trees sway and rattle in the gusts, spent blooms and small cones falling like last night’s rain. The ground is wet, with puddles here and there....