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

A quickie weather report shows that our current temperature is 34°, which coincidentally, is also the low from last night. However, it feels like 28° with a wind out of the south @ eight mph and slightly hazy/foggy conditions. Today's high will reach 39°, so that light dusting of snow that we received overnight will melt away very soon. The sun rose this morning @ 7:23 a.m. and it will set this evening @ 6:32 p.m.

We gave our fur-children that much needed pawdicure yesterday afternoon and then set out for the Grand Haven State Park and a walkabout in the mostly clear parking lot. I took along my camera and snapped some pix for posterity. 

We were not alone on a sunny Friday afternoon.

Sometimes, you find subject matter that sneaks up on you and your camera.

I can never resist a chance to snap a pic of an empty playground.

Or Two.

I wish I could paint this scene as well as I caught it digitally.

Same here, and yes, there are people on the pier, even beyond the outer lighthouse..

This one captured the colors of the sky and both of our lighthouses.

When this concrete sidewalk was laid many years ago, a maple leaf was captured for posterity.

If you snap often enough, you can get a great shot of a gull in flight behind the barren tree branches.

Soon, post Covid-19, the park will be teeming with campers and tourists.

Sometimes your own deck is a great source of material. 

I mentioned the falling ice the other day. Here is one of the chunks that fell on our A/C unit.

And on our neighbor's yard waste bin. Ouch!

I was trying to capture another of the things on our deck. These are some glass beads/marbles that Mary arranged under one of our planters.

Mary adapted a recipe for vegan Jambalaya that I found on the internet. It took some work, and it took some time, but the end result is definitely a keeper. Dinner was delicious.

Today, we have to do some indoor chores, play some music, do some knitting, and I have been tasked with making some vegan bratwursts from our old family recipe. I think that the taste is always spot on, but of course, the vegan version lacks that greasy sensation that brats made from animal products have. I like these better.

Otherwise, I have signed up for an online workshop with Mike Amica from Olympus. This one is covering macro photography, so I have brought up both my own macro lens that interchanges on my own Olympus DSLR camera, and Mary's Olympus Tough, TG-6 camera, which is great for macros as that is what it was designed to shoot.

Otherwise, not much is happening today. Ciao.