Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just after 6:00 a.m. in "The City."

The current temperature is 36° under clear skies with winds of 15 mph. With that wind, it feels like 27°. Today's high is forecast to reach a balmy 40° under clear skies!

The Small Craft Advisory continues in effect until 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. Southwest winds  of 15 to 25 knots and waves from 3 to 5 are forecast from St Joseph to Manistee. Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions. The sun will rise today @ 7:31 a.m. and set later @ 6:26 p.m.

If you need proof that spring has sprung, you need look no further than the Cubs 12 - 2 win over the Oakland As last night. Cubs' catcher, Wilson Contreras,jacked a home-run and non-roster invitees, Trent Giambrone nailed a three run dinger en route to the win. Of course, this is spring training and the likelihood that Giambrone will make the Cubs' opening day roster are slim, but as a Die Hard Cubs Fan you have to take highlights where you can get them. Today, the Cubs take on the the team that got the best end of the trade with my beloved Red Sox, the LA Dodgers @ 3:05 p.m.

Speaking of my beloved Red Sox, minus Mookie Betts and David Price, they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday, 4 - 3. Not a lopsided win, but a win nonetheless. The beloved face the Orioles today @ 1:05 p.m.

And then, there are the Tigers. Miggy looked healthy, so far, but the Tigers and the Phillies enede with an 8 - 8 tie yesterday. The Tigers play split-squad games today against the Braves and the Pirates.

We had a light lunch and then walked over to 7th and Washington to start our afternoon of viewing and photographing the Frozen in Time mannequins.

This pic was taken later when we were downtown on Washington.

We made our first stop at one of our favorite places, Vintage Green, a local antique store just around the corner from the manse.

This group was portraying 10 Green Bottles.

Next, we moved over to J'Dubs wine store and saw a lone mannequin portraying Rock a Bye Baby.

Both the baby and her "mom", looked happy. "Mom" had a glass of wine, so....

We caught the trolley that was running up and down Washington and walked the length of Washington from Third to Harbor and back to see what nursery rhymes were being portrayed. The first portrayal we saw was at Blueberry Heaven, a depiction of Little Boy Blue.

Yes, the cow was in the corn and Little Boy Blue was there too.

Not all of my pix turned out well. I am still trying to master the use of my polarizing filter. There are so many variations in F-stops and Aperture settings, that it won't be an overnight success. However, I think that some of my shots turned out nice. The polarizing filter is supposed to reduce the effects of glare, but I suspect that the problem was operator error, not the filter. I'll leave it to my loyal readers to decide what nursery rhyme my pix depicted.

So many things to see and photograph before we jumped back on the trolley and headed towrds home and our last stop, The Bookman.

We walked home, interrupted the fur-children, and then headed to Stan's for an afternoon libation. Along the way, we picked up two sandwiches @ Subway™ in Spring Lake that became part of our dinner.

Today, more reading to do, more crossword solving, a walk with the fur-children, followed by a lecture @ the First Presbyterian Church of Grand Haven regarding water resources.

This presentation will be by award-winning author and church member, Jeff Alexander. He is an award-winning author and former environmental journalist. He spent two decades covering the Great Lakes and other environmental issues for several Michigan newspapers, including the Muskegon Chronicle. His 2009 book about invasive species, Pandora’s Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, has been called the “definitive history of a Great Lakes tragedy.” It should be very interesting. That looks like enough for one day. Ciao.