Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 7:30 a.m. in "The City."

My DTWS is showing the current temperature from 53° to 54°, depending on whether you are looking at the reading from our front porch or our deck in the rear of the manse. There are no current advisories, alerts, watches, warnings, nor statements in effect at this time. The only variance in our weather conditions is from the forecast being offered by the NWS for tomorrow afternoon, when they are predicting a 42% for afternoon T-storms. MY DTWS barometric pressure reading of 29.59" of Hg and falling is the only indicator of those coming storms. 

The sun will rise into clear skies @7:42 a.m. and set later @ 7:25 p.m. 

Sadly, I think that the sun has set on my beloved Red Sox, as they lost the rubber game of their series versus the Orioles last, 2 - 6 while the Yankees won their game to pull two full games ahead of the faltering Sox. The Sox move on to D.C. to close out the regular season versus the Nats when LHP Eduardo Rodrigues, 11 - 8, tries to get the Sox back on the tracks @ 7:05 p.m. tonight. But, with only three games left in the regular season, things do not look good for the Red Sox, who according to manager Alex Cora, must win. Ya think?

In other sports news, the 4 - 0 MSU Spartans are home tomorrow to face the 1 - 2 W. Kentucky Hilltoppers for a game @ 7:30 p.m. The Spartans should be able to handle the Hilltoppers, but they need to dominate, not just get a win.

The also 4 - 0 Wolverines of Michigan visit the 1 - 2 Badgers of Wisconsin for a game @ 12:00 p.m. tomorrow.. Once again, Jim Harbaugh's squad has to look and actually be great versus a hungry and stinging Badgers team. 

The 2 - 2 Huskies of NIU are home to face the 3 - 1 E. Michigan Eagles @ 2:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. That's going to be a tough assignment for the Huskies.

Mary and I love to visit and walk the local cemeteries wherever we are. However, the Covid-19 pandemic and my less than perfect yak has kept us closer to home for the last couple of years. At any rate, we traveled to the Grand Haven Township Historical Cemetery yesterday for the first time in the 10 years we have lived in GH. It is much smaller than the older Lake Forest Cemetery in GH proper, but there are still some interesting things to see and photograph. The cemetery was founded in 1872.

Even the sign at the entrance is showing its age.

But overhead, modern jet-aircraft are leaving contrails.

Some graves are so old, that the trees have pushed the markers aside.

I was trying different aperture settings and shutter speeds for this shot of an interesting family plot.

The Hoecker family spent a lot of money in 1917 to have these unique markers carved for Mutter Dorothea and Vater, Adolph. The Hoecker's were early Dutch settlers here in W. MI.

There are many of these cast-iron markers in the cemetery.

I viewed a presentation from Olympus given by their rep, Mike Amico, about taking pix of fall colors. As is generally the case, I came away with some interesting ideas.

Mary finished her latest cross-stitch project, a Halloween themed depiction of a witch and a pumpkin last night and it looks great. Late Wednesday night, she had finished listening to her latest book, but it did not disappear at midnight Thursday. Instead, it did not vanish until the same time as Mary downloaded it days ago. She has already found a new book to listen to as she stitches. 

I tried out a new author last night and I didn't like his first book. So, I quickly put it down and I'll be starting another book today along with painting and playing music. 

Today is also the day when we get our Covid-19 booster shots. As people of a certain age, i. e. 65 plus, we qualified for the Pfizer booster shots before other, younger people, except those with underlying health issues. 

Otherwise, our decks are clear for today. Ciao.