Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation, and across the world. It is just after 8:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 68° under clear skies. My DTWS shows 70º. Light winds of 6 mph make it feel like 68°. Today's high temperature is forecast to be 70º @ 10:00 a.m. under cloudy skies with a relative humidity index of 83%.

According to my DTWS, the barometric pressure is 29.30" and falling, while the NWS is reporting 29.88", also falling. That generally indicates changing weather. We shall see.

The sun rose this morning @ 6:10 a.m. and it will set later @ 9:15 p.m

The River Flood Warning has been extended until Saturday @ 8:00 a.m.

As you may recall, I gave up on my seedlings. They were just not growing well and they certainly would not have gotten big enough to produce much, if any, fruit in the short growing season we have here in West MI. Their replacements were delivered yesterday, along with some additional annual flowers, potting soil, and mulch.

Maybe next year, but this wasn't the year for homegrown seedlings. Sigh.

 Speaking of flowers, I was once again able to get some pix of our own flora.

This South Haven iris is in full-bearded bloom.

Maybe today or tomorrow.

Nature has a way of reclaiming its territory from humans

So far, our one successful planting, lettuce, is growing well in two planters and a pot.

However, it is worthy of note that our basil, bush beans, and cucumbers that were directly sown in the pots and the garden are coming up nicely too. I'll try for some pix later this week..

I heard and spotted three train runs on the RSTL yesterday. I heard the southbound passage @ 9:45 a.m. and later, @ about 4:45 p.m., I observed the northbound passage of a very long line of railcars being towed by locomotives 2025 and 2019. However, once it had passed, that same line of cars and those same locomotives were seen heading south again @ around 5:10 p.m. A young trainman was clinging to the leading car which had previously been the last car. The locomotives were now pushing the cars and so the engineer needed eyes to 'see' where he was going. Thus, it was our supposition that the young man with a walkie-talkie provided those eyes. Why the reversal? We have no idea.

Today, I have some kitchen duties, some indoor chores and some editing to accomplish. Will we get to the outdoor plantings? Maybe. Ciao.