So now we’re back to my most recent visit to Año Nuevo State Park, which we showed you in one post from January. This time I’m including the video I took in which you can, if you wish, see a pretty newborn elephant seal pup with its mom: this was calving season.
Somehow we’ve arrived in May, and my next vacation has brought me to another new area surrounded by mountainous countryside. So I’m splurging on a big post with all the remaining from my last days in 2025, all spent in the coastal range of Mendocino County.
Last shots of that lovely early-October evening flight from Dulles back to Schiphol. Baltimore & BWI above. These landscapes feel like home to me, call up fond memories of visits and trips with family and friends, and make me slightly homesick, even at times when the ways the federal government is using our tax dollars to the sole benefit of that very military-industrial complex against which Eisenhower warned us all make me (and hopefully many of us) deeply ashamed and morally horrified.
(so much world, so little time....) 