Good morning or good evening wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 11:00 p.m. in "The City."

A current temperature of 70° feels like 70° with only slight wind out of the south @ 4 mph. The skies are partly-cloudy, perhaps a harbinger of tomorrow's forecast for a 48% chance for showers. Our overnight low tonight will be a comfortable 59° as a prelude to tomorrow's 7° cooler high-temperature forecast of 65°. 

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 6:14 a.m. and set later @ 9:09 p.m.

I've just finished watching the 23 - 22 Cubs lose a close game to their arch-rivals, the 26 - 19 St. Louis Cardinals. That loss drops the Cubs to 3 games in back of the division leading Cardinals, as RHP Adbert Alzolay, 2 - 4, pitched very well, but his teammates left too many men on base. 

Mary and I agree, the announcers of today are not what they were in our younger days. Yes, someone should tell us to "Get off of my lawn!" At any rate, the Cubs send RHP Zach Davies, 2 - 2, to the mound in St. Louis tomorrow night for a 7:08 EDT p.m. start. 

My beloved 29 - 18 Red Sox eked out a win over the 22 - 24 Phillies tonight, 4 - 3. The Sox and the Phillies play again tomorrow @ 1:05 p.m. when LHP Eduardo Rodriguez, 5 - 2, takes the hill for the Sox.

The 18 - 27 Tigers used up all of their mojo last night. So today, they fell to the 21 - 23 Royals, 5 - 7. However, tomorrow is another day and the Tigers will send rookie RHP Casey Mize, 3 - 3 to the mound for a 2:10 p.m. start. 

Sadly, the 7 - 8 West Michigan White Caps dropped two to the 7- 9 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7 - 8 and 8 - 9 that let the 7 - 9 Rattler. The Caps and the Rattlers play tomorrow afternoon beginning@ 2:05 p.m.

We were being lazy today following our indoor chores and my watering duties, but we finally decided that we would sally forth and visit the Village Baker in Spring Lake and then continue on to Sheridan Park in Coopersville, MI for a photo-op. Along the way, I snapped some additional pix of barns and blue-skies with puffy white clouds. At Sheridan Park, we took a different fork in the trail system, to paraphrase the late Yogi Berra. I took a series of pictures to memorialize our trip.

This barn is used as a wedding venue. 

A pic taken while in Sheridan Park.

Also this one.

We did cross this bridge.

We normally go straight ahead when we leave the parking area. But this time, we turned left and passed this trail we did not take..

It was great day for a walk in the woods. Not surprisingly, since Coopersville is about 15 miles east of GH, the temperature was in the mid-80s in Sheridan Park versus the mid-70s here on the shores of the "Big Lake."

I started reading a new novel, well anyway, new to me, Richard Wright's Native Son, which was first published in March of 1940. I also finished the Friday crossword puzzle and Mary finished stitching my new bookmark, an owl asking" Who dunnit?" Didn't I nicely manage to avoid stating whether she was needlepointing or cross-stitching?

Tomorrow, should be a good day for a short driveabout. I'd let Mary and Ginger go solo, but Ginger is never left alone in the car, as someone might steal the second cutest dog on the planet, so I will  have to go along while Mary goes inside to make a pick up. Plus, I think we may have to replace a couple of our veggie plants as the pepper plants are not looking well, so that requires a two -person effort. Ciao.