Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/19/26 6:30 45F (7.2C) Calm, temperate, mostly cloudy. Thin, grey clouds shift above me. Song birds trill. A duck flys low overhead. Somewhere  a woodpecker is tapping. A dove coos. A turkey calls nearby. A shotgun blast. Good morning.    ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/18/26 7:00 38F (3.3C) Wisps of white clouds stretch across blue sky. No wind. Sprayers whine and orchard fans rumble in the distance. The sun climbs over Snakehead Ridge but hasn’t quite lit the canyon floor. Good morning.      ...
Good Morning

Good Morning

      4/17/26 7:00 37F (2.7C) Calm and quiet. I slept late this morning,  clinging to dreams which faded and disappeared as soon as I opened my eyes. Patches of white clouds decorate the blue sky. Birds trill sweetly. A dove coos. Squirrels chatter as...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/16/26 6:00 34F (1C) Cold, partial clearing, no wind on the ground. The temperature  has dropped. Orchard fans are thrumming. It rained all day yesterday and through a good deal of the night. There is snow on the hills up behind the house. We actually...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    4/15/26 6:00 46F (7.7C) Cool,  wet, and gray. A slight breeze wags the birch catkins and flutters the sodden ribbons at the tips of the lodgepoles. It is raining hard.  I can barely hear the birds singing over the steady tattoo of raindrops. Perhaps it...