We took advantage of the break in classes for Thanksgiving to travel west to visit family. One expedition from Portola Valley was over the hill to Moss Beach, where Stephanie and Dan and their 4-month-old twins live. We were early enough to spend a couple of hours at the Fitzgerald Marine Preserve, a remarkable concentrated habitat for a variety of marine and littoral plants and animals. It is a festival of colors, shapes, patterns and textures, to say nothing of natural history. I posted a bunch of images on the Galleries page, in the Distant Explorations category.

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