Good Morning

Good Morning

  7/1/26 6:15 55F (12.7C) Windy with white clouds scudding across the bright blue sky. A jay squawks. Walter barks. The rooster crows. A gust sighs through the  oaks. Momentary interruptions in the still of morning. It is a relatively quiet Wednesday this first...
Good Afternoon

Good Afternoon

    7/1/25 2:00 91f (32.7c) Sunny, hot, and windless.  Walter, Mike and I went up into the Gifford Pinchot to seek relief from the hot weather in the tall trees.  We did a couple of short walks (no mushrooms,  no surprise), then sat down had a whiskey and...
Blackberries

Blackberries

  I am at the side of the trail, eating blackberries just as fast as I can pick them. They stain my fingers red and dissolve in my mouth, this one sweet, that one tart. Thorns tear at my forearms as I reach inside the briars to twist free another berry. The trick...
August

August

brittle yellow grass brown dirt showing through desperate for rain