Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 6:00 p.m. in "The City."

We have a current temperature of 14° that feels like 1° with winds out of the north @ 10 mph. I was just outside with our fur-children for their post-evening meal visits, and I was cold. 

But be that as it may. Overall, I like that when I do go out, our snow service has cleared the porch, the deck, and the driveway. 

Tonight's low will drop to 8° before tomorrow's high temperature of 15°. Tomorrow night's low temperature will also be 8°.

My DTWS is showing a barometric pressure of 29.83" and falling, while the NWS is reporting 30.47" and rising. I have no explanation for that huge discrepancy except for the effects of Lake Michigan. 

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 7:43 a.m. and set tomorrow evening@ 6 :15 p.m.

We are soon to be under two Weather Advisories, a Winter Weather Advisory that goes into effect @ 10:00 p.m. tonight for Central, South Central and Southwest Michigan beginning @ 10:00 p.m. tonight and continuing until Tuesday afternoon 12:00 p.m. I should mention that the driving conditions for the morning and evening commutes will be treacherous. The Winter Weather Advisory will still be in effect tomorrow during the day tomorrow, but apparently the snow will let up during the daylight hours. Go figure.

Our own Tri-Cities area may see between two and four inches of additional snow. I took some pix to illustrate how the snow is piling up here at the manse. I'll add those now.

Taken looking due south from our deck.

A close up shot of our non-functional water pump near the garage. 

Of course, the evening wouldn't be complete without another Weather Advisory this one for a Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee. 15 to 25 knot winds may produce waves from three to six feet in height in open water areas. So, where the water is open near the Grand Haven State Park, there will be waves to photograph for the photographers more brave and hearty than I.

Too many of those brave people were already there this afternoon, so we continued on to the Lake Forest Cemetery.

At any rate, we had gone out to pick up some books at the library and I took along my camera for some pix at the aforementioned state park. So, instead of stopping there, we continued to the Lake Forest Cemetery for a photo op.

Luckily, we espied some deer roaming through the grounds of the cemetery and so I shot some pix of them.

The deer had blazed their own trail into the hills at the cemetery.

Those deer were very aware of our presence.

I snapped a shot of this yearling, who was favoring an injured right rear leg. How badly was he or she hurt? I don't really know. But it could be a break or just a laceration. 

We thought about climbing theses stairs, but discretion is the better part of valor as they say, so...

I have a picture somewhere in my collection of this fallen tree in the warmer weather, but for now, this is an interesting shot. 

The squirrels know how to stay out of the way of predators as the rest high atop the trees in this nest. 

We were going to watch the Daytona 500 Taxi cab race, but it came to an abrupt halt following a 16 car crash and also a rain event. 

Tomorrow, Mary has a grocery store pick up at that big box nearly everything store. She will also be continuing with her cross-stitch efforts on my artist's apron, speaking of which, I hope to get back to my artistic pursuits and read more. Being retired is such a busy time of life. Ciao.