Good morning or good evening, wherever you maybe, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 2:30 a.m. in "The City."

We took a long walk down to the waterfront with Ginger yesterday afternoon. I overdid it a bit, but more than two miles later, I felt good about my efforts. We took a lot of pix too. No real order, just random things that caught our eye.

On our way, these barren trees in Central Park caught my eye.

Like always, a playground, an empty park, or a dormant fountain call out to me.

It was Easter, bu these men had work to do in the downtown.

The channel was empty.

With the exception of this cruiser that was on its way back to Spring Lake.

Like us, lots of people were enjoying the waterfront on a warm, sunny, Sunday afternoon.

Lots of stores are closing in the downtown. Many, but not all, are being repurposed.

The Easter egg hunt that happened in Central Park on Saturday had some leftovers.

Several years ago, John and Deb visited and gave us this frog for the vast gardens of the PE.

Spring is springing in the vast gardens of the PE.

In sports, the now 10 - 10, 4th place in the NL Central Cubs, took a 2 - 1 squeaker from the 11 - 11, 3rd place in the NL West AZ D'Backs, to take 2/3 from the D'Backs in their weekend series. Javier Baez tripled in the bottom of the 9th, and David Bote singled to drive him home for the win. RHP Pedro Strop got the win in relief of starting pitcher, RHP Tyler Chatwood, who settled down quickly and pitched six scoreless innings in a spot start. The Cubs are off until Tuesday night @ 8:05 p.m. EDT, when they welcome the 15 - 9, 1st place in the NL West Dodgers to Wrigley Field as LHP Jose
Quintana takes the mound.

My beloved, 9 - 13, 4th place in the AL East Red Sox, swept the 14 - 8, 1st place in the AL East Tampa Bay Rays, with a 2 - 1 win in 10 innings yesterday. The Sox used a great pitching performance by LHP David Price to get to the win by reliever, LHP Marcus Waldon. The Sox get no rest as they are hosting the 10 - 10, 3rd place in the AL Central, Tigers tonight @ 7:10 p.m.

The Tigers got an excellent pitching performance from LHP Daniel Norris yesterday to win the game over that 8 - 12, 4th place in the AL Central, other team from Chicago, 4 - 3. Tonight's Tigers' game will find LHP Matthew Boyd on the mound for the Tigers and LHP Chris Sale taking the hill for the Sox.

The 6 - 9, last place in the MWL East Caps are on again tonight in Midland, MI, as they take the field against the Great Lakes Loons @ 6:05 p.m.

I had a great day in the kitchen yesterday, as I crafted a delicious stir-fry for brunch. While I was working, I assisted Mary in the preparation of our Easter dinner of hammish. Plus, I did those pesky indoor chores too. We also washed and stored our winter coats for another season too.

My stir-fry brunch of soy curls, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, julienned carrots, mushrooms, onions, molasses, and fresh-grated ginger root, served over rice.

Tasted even better than it looked, but generated more leftovers.

Meanwhile, Mary's Easter hammish was in the Crockpot™ for 6 1/2 hours, getting ready for dinner. In addition, Mary prepared a side-dish of candied sweet potatoes in her trusty cast-iron skillet, As she noted, you take a healthy vegetable and turn it into a not so healthy candied side-dish. So?

Dinner was the hammish with those candied sweet potatoes. A delicious repast.

Once again, even better tasting than it looks.

We have a current temperature if 58° under mostly-cloudy skies, as we drop to the overnight low of 53°. Today's high is forecast to reach 70° under mostly-cloudy skies, but that's 11° warmer than yesterday. Sadly, the high temperature on Tuesday will only be 49° with showers in the forecast. In fact, we will stay in the 50s for many more days before we reach a 60° high on May 1.
The sun will rise this morning@ 6:52 a.m. and set later @ 8:35 p.m.

We have no specific plans for today. I have to prune the rose bushes in the gardens and that's about it. I want to get back to my artistic endeavors too. Mary will be getting to sewing the musically-themed valances for my office/music room/weather center/artists nook, if all goes well. Ciao.