Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/6/26 6:30 43F (6C) Cloudy with patches of blue.  No wind, no rain.   The sun tops Snakehead ridge, flaring golden-yellow through a crack in the clouds. I  hear turkeys calling from the tall trees up the canyon. Birds are singing, the rooster  is...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/5/26 5:45 44F (6.66C) Breezy,  mostly cloudy, beginning to rain. Trees sway in the wind. The moon, waning gibbous behind the clouds, is setting. Birds are singing it to sleep in the dim grey blue of a morning not quite realized. Good morning.  ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/4/26 6:00 45F (7.2C) No wind.  Gray and wet. It is raining here. Apparently it is snowing on the mountain  with the  freezing level  just over 5,000′. That is good. Whether it is good  enough we will discover  come fire season. I expect a long...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/3/26 40F (4.4C) 3:00 – 4:45 full moon eclipsed like  a round, pink, salmon egg. I slept through my alarm and almost missed the eclipse. It was a red ember when I got outside. Descending into the tops of the oaks, it went from a glowing red...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/2/26 5:00 34F (1C) Clear and calm. The moon, waxing to full, round and bright against the dark sky, hangs above the west ridge between Willow Flat and Middle Mountain. Early tomorrow morning there will be a lunar eclipse. As the nieghbors begin to...