Author: dpfaulk

While the shortest amount of daylight is on the Winter solstice, December 21st, every day after that until the Summer solstice on June 21st the...

This past year felt wetter to both Rose and me, and indeed it was. We also had the hottest couple of daytime highs since moving...

In addition to the hemlock tree, there were five alder trees and one maple. The alders grow here like weeds, and as they age, they...

I am not a bird watcher, but I am interested in what is living and making its home in and around where we live. We...

After this second shot, however, I did experience some side effects for a day and a half. I received the shot at 1:30 pm on...

To get a sense of how fast the deaths have increased, when I wrote my first post on March 31st there were much less than...

Welcome to my annual weather data post. This year (2020), I installed a new weather station, the WS-2000 from Ambient Weather, in mid January due...

Our current location in the state of Washington is by far the northern most latitude where I have lived. The changes in sunrises and sunsets...

When I wrote the last post in March, there were 163,705 confirmed cases and 3,402 deaths. Less than a full six months later there are...

As anyone in the world knows now, the U.S. is really ramping up our number of cases and deaths from the coronavirus, and according to...