Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/5/26 6:45 49F (9.4C) AQI 19 Cloudy with puddles. The rain has stopped but it hasn’t dried out.  There is no wind. The chickens are clucking as the rooster attempts to exert his authority (is that what the kids are calling it now?). Birds chatter and...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/4/26 5:30 47F (8.3C) AQI 20 Overcast and raining. In the east the waning quarter moon lends a dull luminosity to the clouds. Rain taps through the leaves and soaks into the ground. Good morning.                  ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/3/26 6:00 49F (9.4C) AQI 23 Cloudy, damp. The waning half moon glows behind a thin veil of clouds. The dark is slow to leave this morning. It rained all yesterday and most of last night. I expect it will rain more today. Good.  We were overdue.    ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/2/26 7:30 55F (12.7C) AQI 15 We were promised rain but it has not yet materialized. The sun is above the ridge and shining through broken cloud cover. Southwest winds aloft,  no breeze on the ground. My pumpkins are still setting fruit. A vine has climbed the...
Good Morning

Good Morning

  9/1/26 5:30 55F (12.7C) AQI 79 Under the waning moon, a bat flickers through the trees, a startling motion passing in front of patches of pale light. A little later, the school bus rumbles by. Birds chirp and begin to chatter. A duck grumbles in the shadows....