Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be. It is just past 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

I guess that all of our activities yesterday took a toll on me. We made it to my MRI appointment and that went as well as could be expected. I won't know the results until my next orthopedic appointment in early November. However, having experienced similar pain in my now surgically repaired right-shoulder, I have a good idea what to expect. Sigh.

We had lunch at the hospital salad bar before my MRI, after which we were off to Duncan Woods, the local park that was donated to the City of Grand Haven in the early 1900s by Mrs Robert Duncan. The donation of the 50 acre area, now closer to 40 acres, came with the stipulation that it remain undeveloped and in its natural state to benefit the community. Duncan Woods is overseen by a three-member commission and the woods themselves are part of the GH Park System. All in all, a great place to walk and take pix with my new telephoto lens, which I did. I have included some here, in no particular order.

Duncan Woods is adjacent to the Lake Forest Cemetery. I took this pic because I liked the view through the trees.

I was quite a distance away when I took this shot.

Once we had walked enough in Duncan Woods, we traveled to Grand Haven State Park to see the empty beaches and our signature lighthouses. I took some pix of those too, and to give you some idea of the magnification of my telephoto lens, I also took this pic of the smokestack of a Consumers Energy™ power generation plant that is nearly 10 miles to the south. Yes, it was that overcast.

I included some pix of our excursion to Grand Haven State Park.

Very few people were on the beach on this late October day.

The only birds we saw were this crows and some seagulls.

The "Big Lake" was very calm yesterday.

Since I was shooting south, I took this pic of the cloudy and overcast skies .

Yes, the tourist traps are empty and vacancies abound.

Hmm, since I said that, I must include a cut from YouTube™ of Jimmy Buffett singing his song, When The Coast is Clear. It seemed appropriate to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwemz-R_oGU

Once we were done at the state park, we traveled over the bridge to Stan's Bar and Grill in Spring Lake. As were were departing Spring Lake, Mary decided that she needed some flowers from Spring Lake Floral, so we pulled in to their lot and with help from Bill, the owner, we purchased a bouquet that is composed of flowers whose names I can no longer recall. However, since I was downstairs returning the camera to its case, I did take a pic of that bouquet in Mary's "Flower Room" AKA , our foyer. Oh, we picked up Ginger from daycare too.

A nice arrangement by our in-house arranger.

I woke up in my La-Z-Boy in our media room around 5:00 a.m., where I had fallen asleep hoping for a better outcome of the game between my beloved Red Sox and the Dodgers. When I fell asleep, around the 13th inning, I think, the score was tied, 2 - 2. When I woke up, I learned that the game had been won by the Dodgers in the bottom of the 18th inning on a walk-off home-run by the Dodger's Max Muncy off of relief pitcher, Nathan Eovaldi. This game is now on record as the longest postseason/World Series™ game in history. Oh well, we'll get em tonight @ 8:09 p.m. EDT.

We have a current temperature of 44° under cloudy skies. Once the sun rises today @ 8:13, about two hours from now, we will see a peak temperature of 52°. also under cloudy skies, with a 20% chance for showers in the late afternoon. Sunday's forecast from the NWS calls for a 100% chance of showers. The sun will set over GH tonight @ 6:43 p.m.

Trainspotting yesterday was limited. I heard MMRR locomotives 2025 and 2019 going by on the RSTL @ 7:30 a.m. and it sounded like they were "Deadheading." That is an early hour for them to be passing. Later, @ 11:05 a.m., Ginger and I spotted the same locomotives heading north towing four CHCs, five, DBTCs, and four DWTCs.

Today, we have nothing on the docket other than a walk with the fur-children and some reading. I am hoping to get to yesterday's crossword puzzle too. Ciao.