Author Archives: Mark

The past week has been mostly dry – unusual for November here – but while the coast and the mountains have been seeing relatively warm, clear days, here in the Willamette valley we are lucky to top out at 45 … Continue reading →

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I just submitted my NSF fellowship application, which feels good after a month of working on it. Time for a beer! (And to do my other homework…) Rain gauge reads 0.98″ – should make it to an inch by midnight. … Continue reading →

It is clear tonight for the first time in about 10 days, confirming that the moon does in fact still exist and that it is waxing to full on schedule. We are briefly in between weather systems, with a weak … Continue reading →

You don’t need me to tell you, but just let me say I am glad to see an end to the era that began eight years ago! When the results were announced, we cracked open a series of long-stored high-quality … Continue reading →

This is the land of rain – or so they say – but it has been rather dry until now. Today the clouds finally decided to dump, and it looks like the rain will continue on and off at least … Continue reading →

The rainy season has not yet started, and Mother Earth has seen fit to give us a long stretch of beautiful clear days, which is forecast to continue through next Wednesday. Fall colors are at their peak, and temperatures warm … Continue reading →

As of today I have been in Oregon exactly one month, though as will all transition times it seems much longer than that. So long, in fact, that already this summer is fading into a warm cobwebby neural network of … Continue reading →

The average first frost date in Minnesota is about September 25. The average first frost date in Corvallis is October 25. So nineteen out of twenty years it probably freezes earlier in Minnesota. Not this year. We dropped to 29.3 … Continue reading →

Here at 4715 Nash we our on our third “creature plague.” Creature plagues here, while annoying, are not nearly as bad as in Minnesota because our creatures do not a) bite or b) stink. First came the flies, which we … Continue reading →