Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 9:00 p.m. in "The City."

The Small Craft Advisory remains in effect from St. Joseph to Manistee until 12:00 p.m. tomorrow. Wind speeds from 10 to 20 knots with gusts up to 30 knots are expected to propel waves of four to seven feet in height.

However, even though that Small Craft Advisory will expire, it will be replaced by a Gale Watch from St. Joseph to Manistee beginning @ 1:00 a.m. Wednesday and continuing until Thursday @ 1:00 a.m. Winds of 20 to 30 knots with gusts possible to 45 knots may produce waves from six to nine feet!

Today's high temperature reached 38° and tonight the low is forecast to drop to 35° under cloudy skies. Tomorrow, the high temperature forecast from the NWS calls for 38° with a low temperature of 35°. 

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 8:13 a.m. and set later @ 5:13 p.m. as winter officially begins. Today was the shortest day of the year. From now on, the days get longer and the nights get shorter.

Mary and her "Wing Gal" Ginger, made their trip to that big box nearly everything store for a pick up today and then they traveled to one of their new favorite places, the trail near the BLP Sims II power plant on Harbor Island and Swan Lake.

As I've said, the best camera that you have is the one that you have with you. So, Mary used her Smart Phone camera to capture two pictures of the swans there.

A close up shot.

And one at distance.

Before they left STWD and I on our own, Mary called me upstairs to get some pix of something that we've never before seen, two men working on the cell phone tower atop the nearby telephone building. We both agreed that there is not enough money on the planet to get us up there. However, I took some pix to depict what we saw.

This view out the window of Mary's office makes them look small.

Growing bigger through my everyday telephoto lens.

And bigger still.

Out on a limb, I mean an extension for an antenna. 

Safety harness or not, there is no way we'd go up there, about five stories in the air.

Before Mary and Ginger went out, Mary prepared one of the dishes I remember from my childhood, waffles and hot dogs. Of course, when I was a kid over 50 years ago, the hot dogs were made from pork?

Later, while Mary and Ginger were out on their appointed rounds, I made vegan Italian meatballs and vegan Italian burgers. Since Ginger was out, STWD got all of the mushroom cuttings to herself. 

We had some of the meatballs with our dinner, and they were up to my high standards. Naturally, Mary made her secret recipe pasta sauce with my assistance. However, although I know what is in the sauce, I don't know the quantities, so her secret recipe is safe with me. 

Tomorrow, is another day of indoor chores and a book pick up at the library in the afternoon. That's enough for one day. I should have time to get to my music and other sundry activities. Ciao.