Category Archives: Weather, Tides & Geography

The physical world around us – weather, tides, and natural land features.

Mary Oliver’s Poem for the Harvest Moon

If you’re reading Mary Oliver’s Twelve Moons as a lunar calendar with me this year, it’s time to read the poem for September’s full moon, Harvest Moon—The Mockingbird Sings in the Night. The Harvest Moon is the first full moon … Continue reading

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Watching the Snow Melt

Every year at this season, we keep an even closer eye than usual on The Mountain With No Name across Lynn Canal. We watch to see if the snow on the mountain lasts through the year.

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