Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 7:00 a.m. in "The City", where the sun will rise today @ 7:54 a.m. and set later @ 7:53 p.m., after a partly-cloudy day and a high of 37 degrees That's after we move away from our current temperature of 22 degrees.

In Mesa, AZ, the Cubs are enjoying a current temperature of 60 degrees under clear skies, which will continue as they enjoy today's sunny skies and 80 degrees.

In Lakeland, the skies are partly-cloudy and the Tigers are anticipating a high today of 72 degrees under those same partly-cloudy skies.

In Ft. Myers, FL, my beloved Red Sox are also under cloudy-skies, as they expect a high today of 80 degrees with rain in the forecast for tonight.

By the by, I thought I had missed the afternoon train run on the RSTL Friday, after seeing MMRR locomotives 2019 and 2025 pass by towing 11 CHCs, three DBTCs, two DWTCs, and two GTCs @ 9:36 Friday morning.

However, there was no afternoon run and so I was awoken by the sound of those same locomotives passing by yesterday morning towing five CHCs, six DBTCs, and four DWTCs. I can't remember the last time I saw a Saturday morning train run.

Mary and I both had good times yesterday. I was  at my Irish Jam Session that was lightly attended due to the many gigs being performed by various players around the West Michigan area. In fact, Larry, our fearless leader, had to leave early to get to his band's gig in Hart, MI. However, my vegan Irish soda bread was well received and it does indeed taste great.

Meanwhile, Mary was in Muskegon @ The Camera Store, where she attended a very informative workshop on macro photography. All in all, she took over 250 pix! I've uploaded them all to the cloud, but you won't see them beyond those which I'll include here.

A great capture of water droplets on a feather.

A succulent garden.

A different shot of those water droplets.

I picked this one as a possible for my art corner, but there are many to choose from in the cloud.

Once of several shell-themed pix.

Same.

Here too.

The workshop presenter, Mike Amico of Olympus, had set up many different subjects to choose from.

One view of a fiber subject with more in the shot.

While this view has a different focal point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A jewel display.

We went out to dinner @ Don Luis Mexican Restaurant, after Mary picked me up from the jam session. The food was terrific, as always, and then it was time to head home to feed the fur-children and see what John had accomplished during his painting session in the manse. He got the ceiling done in the dining room and taped off the trim in preparation for completion on Monday and Tuesday of the entire project that includes the foyer.

But as usual, I digress. As we were leaving Don Luis, we espied out car in the lot parked next to another Jeep™ Renegade of the same color and similar equipment. We don't know where the owner(s) of that vehicle were, but we assume that they couldn't resist the chance to park next to our Jeep™. At any rate, Mary had her camera at the ready following our collective viewing of her day's photo efforts while we were at the restaurant. So, she shot several pix to memorialize "The Meeting."

Ours is the one on the right. Black trim, grill, and wheels versus chrome trim, grill, and wheel accents.

Today, we hope to stay in after finally being able to take the fur-children on a more extended walk after breakfast. We have been unable to walk with them for several weeks due to my shoulder surgery and the icy sidewalks. I won't be able to walk too far, as sleeping on one side has mis-aligned my yak, but I'll build up as time goes by and the chiropractor and physical therapist work their collective magic. We have some plans to do some reading too, but that is a very fluid plan. We must do some indoor chores too. Ciao.