Good morning or good evening wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 9:30 p.m. in "The City", where the current temperature is a brisk 38° with a "Real Feel" of 37° under cloudy-skies. That temperature reading is caused by a slight three-mph wind out of the northeast. The NWS is forecasting an overnight low tonight of 34°. There are no current advisories, watches, nor warnings in effect as of this writing. 

Also per the NWS, tomorrow's high-temperature will soar to 46° under partly-cloudy skies with an overnight low-temperature forecast of 42°. Tomorrow, the sun will rise @ 8:22 a.m. and set @ 6:33 p.m.

I am about one-half done reading my latest novel, Red Widow, by Alma Katsu and I like it very much. I also finished two crossword puzzles today. Earlier this morning I sat down and played and sang quite well. Later, I added more paint to my many canvases that are always on or near my easel.

This afternoon, Mary took STWD for a walk and then she, Ginger, and I set out for a stop at the Goodwill store and a hiking/photo-op session at the Hofma Preserve in Grand Haven Township. Hofma Preserve always provides great photo-ops and this time we took several new trails, one of which ended at an observation tower. As we walked, I took many pictures and then atop the observation tower, I took still more. Here are some that I particularly like. 

One of the many trails through the preserve.

This tree called out to me, saying, "Take my picture, please." So I did.

A boardwalk leads to the observation tower.

Which from this angle doesn't seem to be much of a tower.

But, it stands about fifteen-feet tall and seems to encourage people to wax philosophical. Some of you may recognize this truncated quote from George Gordon, AKA, George Lord Byron Gordon.

When you are up higher, the wetlands are a sight to behold. 

As are the blue and partly-cloudy skies.

Our return to the parking area followed yet another trail.

The sun added a nice warm feel to our hike.

We returned to our car via this wooden bridge.

All in all it was a great day for a walk in the woods, as my yak was once again cooperating. 

By the by, I pulled up the vast vegetable gardens earlier today. There were actually some new blooms and green tomatoes still on the vines, but they had no chance to become ripe fruit.

Tomorrow, we will be doing some cross-stitch picture hanging, some walking, some music, some painting, some pie-baking and and some retiring, not necessarily in that order. There are probably more things on our to-do list, than we can do in one day, but that's okay, they can wait.

Mary is making solid progress on her latest cross-stitch project. Earlier today while I was reading downstairs, she was upstairs finishing a square that depicts a crackling fire. It looks great. Right now, she is in the kitchen rearranging yet another area that we have allowed to languish as it was for far too long. Ciao.