Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/18/26 6:00 43F (6.1C) Overcast with a flutter of breeze. It’s a soft, gray morning.  Doves coo and birds chirp. The rooster is awake. Walter, having concluded a minor disagreement with the dog across the way, continues making his rounds. All is...
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...