Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 1:00 a.m. in "The City."

The NWS has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for parts of Southwest Michigan, including Ottawa, County, that goes into effect @ 1:00 p.m. today and continues in effect until 1:00 p.m. Wednesday.

During the overnight hours of Tuesday into Wednesday, there is a 90% chance for precipitation that will be a mix of rain and sleet that will accumulate less than one-inch. However, that one-inch includes about one-quarter inch of ice which may lead to damaged trees, downed power lines, and hazardous driving conditions.

Our local schools have already used up their budgeted snow days, so they may have to extend the school year to meet the requisite 180 days required by the state.

Our current temperature is 35° as we drop down to an overnight low of 24° before rebounding to today's high temperature of 30°. Wednesday and Thursday we'll return to the mid 30s with the forecast for Thursday also calling for a 100% chance of rain showers. Then it's back down into the teens again. Oh, the sun will rise this morning @ 7:55 and set later @ 6:02 p.m.

A side note, the pitchers and catchers report to their respective training camps on the 12th, a scant eight days from now!

We did make it to my P/T appointment yesterday and that went well. According to the therapist, I am on schedule for this time in my recovery. Once we finished there, we had lunch, and then headed over to Duncan Woods for some picture taking. I stayed in the car while Mary took the photos, just as I'd hoped. Along with those pix, Mary took some pix of her flowers in the foyer/flower room and I've included one of those also.

We were there all by ourselves to witness the foggy conditions in Duncan Woods.

Since the sun does not penetrate the trees, snow was still thick.

I keep wanting this to be a Hemlock tree. Sadly, it is not, and I don't know what the tree in the picture actually is.

Same here.

Don't know what type of flower this is either, but this closeup is amazing.

All pictures courtesy of our staff photographer, Mary.

Today, I am off to my colored pencil drawing gathering at the Loutit Library. While not a formal class, there is an artist in residence to help with shading and color selection. I am enjoying my time there.

Afterwards, Ginger and Sugar will be stopping by the groomer for a tune-up. Sugar just for a quick nail trim, but for Ginger the whole works, bath, nails and a trim. As a terrier mix, she doesn't shed, so a periodic grooming is a necessity. Otherwise, not much else is on tap for today. I have some baking to do tomorrow in preparation for our History Book Club meeting while Mary plans to knit more of her latest project. Ciao.