Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 6:00 a.m. in "The City." That's "The City" that is home to the soon to be famous, Weather Window One Report, derived, in part, from the efforts of the meteorologists @ the NWS in Grand Rapids, MI, about 25 - 30 miles east of my local Weather Office.

Th NWS location in GR, means that many times, their forecasts are not applicable to our little slice of heaven here on the shores of the "Big Lake." As an example, they were forecasting heavy downpours, T-storms and high winds yesterday. Here in GH, the rains fell, but only lightly, there were no T-storms, and the high-winds were just a pleasant breeze. The Excessive Heat Warning in the forecast for yesterday and today never seemed to materialize here. We walked to the library last evening for a presentation and the Air Quality Alert for yesterday through tomorrow @ 12:12 a.m., was a bit cautious for our fair city too.

I can attest that the Beach Hazard Statement in effect for yesterday through 8:00 p.m. tonight, accompanied by the Small Craft Warning also in effect are likely to be more accurate. Mary always has to remind me that the distance between here and GR makes a big difference. It did pour in GR yesterday, while the T-storms and high winds jumped over us. Okay be me, as light rains and breezy conditions are preferable to heavy downpours, excessive heat, poor air quality, and other weather phenomena.

At any rate, the current temperature, according to the NWS in GR, is 77°, which is nearly identical to the 78° being reported on my own DTWS fed by its accompanying FPMS. The high temperature forecast for today is 83° after the sun rises @ 6:22 a.m. and well before it sets @ 9:19 p.m.

Let's keep the baseball report short today. The Cubs were off yesterday, but they face the Padres today @ 2:10 p.m. EDT today. My beloved Red Sox dropped the Blue Jays yesterday, 5 - 0, as Chris Sale recorded 12 Ks and allowed only two hits, as he hopefully has returned to form. The Sox travel to nearby Baltimore for a game tonight @ 7:10 p.m. The Tigers, well, they are still finding new and innovative ways to lose, as they did yesterday to the Indians, 3 - 6. Matthew Boyd still has issues with the "Gopher Ball." The Tigers welcome the Blue Jays to Comerica Park tonight @ 7:10 p.m. Finally, the West Michigan WhiteCaps hammered the Beloit Snappers last night, 13 - 7. The Caps are still in Beloit tonight for a gem against the Snappers @ 7:05 p.m.

As I mentioned earlier, we walked to the library last night for a presentation, this one about Abandoned Michigan  and Abandoned Detroit, by the authors of the two books, Kyle Brooky and James Peterman.

Given the copyrighted nature of the slides used during their presentation, this is the only pic I have.

However, before we left, I took some pix of the gladiolas that Mary got for her birthday last Monday. As of yesterday, they still looked fresh and were continuing to open.

Not grown in our vast gardens, but terrific anyway.

 While we walked to the library and on our return trip, I took some additional pix of our fair city.

Mary helped me frame this shot of the fountain in Central Park.

Same here.

Of course, once we had heard the excellent presentation about Michigan and Detroit, we moseyed on to JWs for some adult libations. Along the way, I took still more pix.

As the county seat for Ottawa County, MI, we have the Ottawa County Courthouse.

The courthouse, shot through the trees of Central Park.

I also took some random shots that I'll add here in no particular order and with no rhyme nor reason. I just liked them.

What visitors see of our fair sity as they travel past our City Hall on Washington.

Across the street, is this "Homeless Jesus", part of the displays outside the Episcopal Church , also on 

Washington.

As we passed the nearby Public Safety building, I happened to catch this squirrel crossing Washington from south to north.

Our neighbor to the south has these animals as part of what we have dubbed, "The Menagerie."

More of "The Menagerie" with our house in the background to the left.

With our camera set on "Nightscape" I took this shot of a local store across from JWs.

If you are interested, here are a couple of links to the work of the presenters from last night, courtesy of YouTube™. The authors are billed as Ruin Road. They still have "day jobs", but exploring abandoned sites is their avocation that they would like to make their vocation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ22QccJGN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-bYiiPnbs

Otherwise, nothing on tap for today. We have more reading to do, more crosswords to solve, and more retirement to be enjoyed. Ciao.