Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 11:15 p.m. in "The City" which is windy and cold right now. That cold is being fostered by an 18 mph wind out of the west that makes it feel like 40° versus the actual temperature displayed on my DTWS of 47°.

The Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee remains in effect until 7:00 a.m. Friday. Windspeeds pf 30 knots will propel waves up to 10 feet in height! Our high-temperature tomorrow is forecast to only reach 38° with snow-showers in the forecast in the afternoon accompanied by winds of 22 mph! The overnight low is expected to drop to 33°. All of that happens after the sun rises @ 7:40 a.m., but before the sun sets @ 5:18 tomorrow evening. 

I stayed  home today while Mary went walkabout at Duncan Woods before she stopped at that big-box nearly everything store. She had to get a few grocery items, but mostly she was in search of a basket for our mud room to hold the sundry items  that are part and parcel to winter in Michigan.

While Mary was at Duncan Woods, she slipped into her role as our Senior Staff Photographer and took these pictures of her walkabout using only her Smart Phone camera. I think the pictures came out very nice in spite of the cloudy conditions and limited sunshine.

Earlier, I was again doing some work in my studio and watched the passage of MMRR locomotives 2170 and 2019 as they headed south. The passage of the train across our street and at every  grade-level crossing required that a flagger disembark the front of the lead locomotive and stop traffic. For whatever the reason, the railroad has et to reactivate the signal lights at the crossings here in GH. At 9:02 a.m., I saw those locomotives towing 11 DBTCs, two GTCs, and 15 CGCs. 

As I said, I stayed behind this afternoon and as I was once again working in my studio, I watched the northbound run of the MMRR locomotives as they towed nine DBTCs and one DWTC around 4:00 p.m. 

Tomorrow I have another P/T appointment after I let the fur-children out post-feeding. There is not much else on tap for me. Mary will be listening to her book and doing more cross-stitching. Ciao.