October 2026

October 25, 2026

Caen Peace Memorial

Sunday, October 25. Today was a long bus ride to Normandy, where we will board our ship. We stopped in Caen for a delcious lunch. Caen was bombed twice during World War II: first by the Nazis to take France, then by the Allies to take it back. The town...

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October 7, 2026

Strange Logfellows

at Alton Baker Park Double-crested cormorant, common merganser, and glaucous gull sharing a log. It wouldn’t be unusual for several cormorants to be stretching out their wings to dry on this log. If we saw the merganser swimming by, that wouldn’t be uncommon either. Gulls fly over from the nearby...

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