Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 10:45 p.m. in "The City."

A current temperature of 75° under partly-cloudy skies feels like 75° with a wind out of the south @ 5 mph. The overnight low will drop to only 72° before we rebound to tomorrow's high-temperature of 81°, also under partly-cloudy skies. The overnight low tomorrow will be a more seasonal 66°. The sun will rise in the morning @ 6:29 a.m. and set later @ 9:12 p.m.

Normally, I'd report the baseball news right about now, but all of my teams are still playing, so I'll skip over that part of the blog until all the scores are in and instead report on our day today. 

Update: Cubs win over the Reds, 6 - 5, Red Sox win over the Blue Jays, 5 - 4, Tigers fall to the Twins, 5 - 6. 

We harvested our potatoes today. Not a huge amount, and the plants behind our garage produced no potatoes, but all in all, our container planters rewarded us with some nice potatoes. Mary took some pictures using her Olympus Tough TG-6 camera, so I'll add some of those here.

The first container produced these red potatoes that were easily accessed through the side flap.

Alas, in spite of my hopes, I dug up nothing but dirt behind the garage.

But all told, we had a good harvest in three small containers.

Once we were done with the harvest, Mary moved inside and I watered all of the plantings on the Palatial Estate. I should mention, that during the rain storm the other night, one of the deer of Grand Haven took refuge in our back yard and ate some of our cherry tomatoes. I also harvested another cucumber too.

I came in, rested and read for a while, then Mary took her audio-book and knitting upstairs and left me to one of my favorite activities in the kitchen, pie baking. Today, I made a blueberry pie. We had one-piece each before dinner and we both pronounced it excellent. Here is a pic of my efforts, minus those two pieces.

Mmmmm good!

We decided that a trip to the auxiliary gardens for watering and harvesting followed by a photo shooting trip was a good way to end our day. Before we left, we fed the fur-children, I took some pix in our own vast gardens, and then we set out. While at the auxiliary gardens, Mary watered, I weeded, and harvested a cucumber and another summer squash.

Here are some pix of the flowers that are blooming in our own back yard.

I like the contrast of this black-eyed Susan against the blurred background.

In Mary's rose garden, this is one of many blooms.

These perennial daisies grow near our garage. 

After our stop at the auxiliary gardens, we headed east into the township and stopped at a park along the Grand River or maybe it is near Spring Lake, it is hard to tell. At any rate, it is called Potawatomie Park. There are numerous trails there, picnic shelters, playgrounds, a beach, and of course, water.

Here ae some pix I took.

Built in 1992.

Fishing piers.

Great scenery.

A boardwalk along the lakeshore or riverside.

A gull in flight.

A nice melange or medley of man-made and natural sights.

Part of a still living tree.

Time to head home, eat dinner and pie, relax, read, and get ready for the indoor chores tomorrow. That's all folks. Ciao.