Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 3:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 67° under clear skies. Our overnight low will be 66° The sun will rise today @ 7:31 a.m. and set later @ 7:44 p.m. The NWS is forecasting a 50% chance for T-storms this evening that will morph into a 90% for showers by early Sunday morning. STWD will not be happy.

There is a Small Craft  Advisory in effect from 12:00 p.m. today until 8:00 p.m. Sunday. In addition, there is also a Beach Hazard Statement, and a Lakeshore Flood Advisory in effect for that time period. As I've often said, life on the shores of the "Big Lake" never gets dull.

I'm going to skip over sports with only a few exceptions.

The Cubs will play the Cardinals today @ 2:20 p.m. EDT. My beloved Red Sox will be playing the Rays tonight @ 6:10 p.m., and the Tigers try again tonight, also @ 6:10 p.m.

The Spartans and the Wolverines play today @ 12:00 p.m. against the Wildcats of Northwestern and the Badgers of Wisconsin respectively. The Huskies of NIU are off this week.

We made it to all of our planned activities yesterday. We started our day in Central Park at the Tri-Cities Climate Strike. Great ideas and great thoughts from the attendees. I took some pix of the activities.

This was an understatement.

A good crowd of old and young alike.

Jared Cramer, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, one of the sponsors of the Strike, spoke briefly.

By the by, Climate Strikes were held all across the country and around the world.

As we were heading out and returning from the activities in Central Park, I took some pix of the flowers in our own vast gardens.

This rose from Mary's Rose Garden is now in our Flower Room.

These blossoms are on one of  the rose bushes in front of our porch.

As is this one, that is very fragrant and beautiful.

I took this shot while we were in Central Park.

After lunch, we were off to Holland to visit one of the big-box home-centers there. I got everything that I wanted. Along the way, I took some shots at the power plant near Holland. This plant is 20 times larger than the soon to be closed GHBLP Sims Power Plant in GH.

Large coal-fired power plants generate a huge amount of coal-ash as a byproduct of generating power from coal.

The plant consumes hard coal at a voracious rate, as shown by theses rail-cars that arrive daily @ the plant.

We made it home, fed the fur-children and soon we were on our way to Seven Steps Up to see a terrific performance by Amy Speace, a talented singer/songwriter who played guitar and keyboards and sang for an appreciative audience.

Soulful songs, many from her just released album.

Ms. Speace, who now lives in Nashville, TN, is a gifted guitarist and vocalist.

But she is equally at home behind a keyboard.

So many pictures so little space.

This afternoon, I have my monthly Irish Jam session at the library. Two hours of music and fun. Mary has plans to plan our route for our upcoming trip to the Festival of the Book in Harbor Springs. I'm sure we will enjoy our time in a place we've never been before. Ciao.