Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 1:15 p.m. in "The City", where the current and "Real Feel" temperatures are exactly the same @ 68° under partly to mostly sunny skies with a wind out of the southeast @ 13 mph. That wind is part of the Small Craft Advisory that remains in effect from S. Joseph to Grand Haven until 6:00 p.m. tomorrow night. The sun will set later this evening @ 6:49 p.m. with a 50% chance for showers later tonight.

Tomorrow, the sun will rise @ 8:09 a.m. and set later @ 6:49 p.m. In between, the high is forecast to reach a very pleasant and fall-like 72°. Tuesday's high will still be in the lower 60s, but there is also a 79% chance for rain showers too. 

Yesterday was a day in which we did more reading, more crossword solving, more knitting, more music playing, more apple pie baking, and more photography. It was later in the afternoon, and I had gotten restless, so Mary, Ginger, and I hopped into our Jeep Renegade™ and headed over to the Harbor Island/Linear Park/Swan Lake area to get some exercise for Ginger and some photo-ops for me.

Swans and Canada geese near the Verplank Dock in Ferrysburg looking across Swan Lake. 

Given the wrangling over the clean-up of the former Sims II power plant site, this sign will be there for many years into the future. 

But for now, the Linear Park walkway is accessible to Ginger and her companion. human.

The pathway borders one of the channels of the Grand River that leads to Lake Michigan. 

I was interested in getting a reflection shot of this No Wake sign.

I hope I captured the sunlight glinting off the water in the channel. 

Once again, trying to capture the reflection as well as the actual piling in the channel.

I just liked how this tree looked.

But, I'm not done yet. Both before we left and after we returned to the manse, I took some shots of the flora here.

Our perennials in the small garden near the deck are blooming once again. 

And though I've stopped watering, these geraniums are still flourishing. 

The fallen green leaves make a nice contrast to the purple mums.

The annuals continue to bloom in spite of my no-watering policy. The brown leaves are a nice contrast.

In the far-flung reaches of our vast gardens, these annuals are thriving without any intervention from me. 

Overall, yesterday was really a productive day for all of us here at the manse. Today is a day when Mary and Ginger have gone for a walkabout while I have stayed behind to rest my knees and blog. A side note, my recent (Radio Frequency Ablation) RFI spinal nerve ablations have produced significant relief for my aching yak, so that's all good. Ciao.