Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 6:00 p.m. in "The City", where the current temperature is a balmy 66° as we drop down from today's high temperature of 71° under partly cloudy skies. The "Real Feel" temperature is also 66° with a wind out of the southwest @ 16 mph. Our overnight low-temperature tonight will drop to 47°.

We have a Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee in effect until 7:00 p.m. tomorrow, with winds blowing from 15 to 20 knots with gusts possibly up to 30 knots producing waves up to five feet in height. 

Sadly, today's high temperature is the last we'll see in the 60° range for quite some time. Tomorrow, we'll see a high temperature of 50° and by Saturday, the NWS is forecasting a possibility of rain/snow showers with a prediction for Sunday of snow showers without rain. I am so not ready for that. 

The sunset today occurred @ 5:25 p.m. and tomorrow's sunrise will be @ 7:32 a.m. with sunset @ 5:24 p.m.

Be that as it may, we had originally planned to do nothing today, but the beautiful weather forced our hands, so to speak, and we set out for Hofma Park, the channel, and our own manse for a photo op.

A beautiful place.

And Ginger loves the trails. But, she also encountered several off-leash dogs while we were there. 

I like the playground.

And the surrounding trees.

The sun was shining brightly through the trees. 

And people were out on the trails.

This gull was content to sit on the dock at the bay, oops I mean at the channel.

And this pair of ducks were enjoying the beautiful day too.

Since we parked at Chinook Pier, I had to take this shot of the Pere Marquette, #1223.

At home, we were getting ready to head inside, but I heard that train a coming, it was rolling round the bend.

The lone engineer in the cab of old # 2019, blowing his horn.

Since I was out there, I snapped this picture of our parkway garden

While near our deck, the perennials are still in bloom too. 

I almost forgot that earlier in the day, our Senior Staff Photographer and her intrepid companion, use our Smart Phone to capture a picture of the channel. But I said nearly, so here is their photo.

I chose this pic with wispy cirrus clouds and the shadow of our Senior Staff Photographer.

It is worthy of note, that this is the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the ill-fated Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. Many will remember that the sinking was immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot in his song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, so naturally, I had to add a link to that song from YouTube™. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

I believe it is time to close this blog. Ciao.