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After Metz, we visited Strasbourg for about 24 hours, which was fabulous, but we were in the center of a large city, so I failed to capture any wildlife pictures. 😦 Then we hopped on a train again this morning and took it back south to the Alps, where I have a hope of gettingContinue reading “Back to the Alps…”

As I mentioned yesterday, we’re traveling again today, so I won’t have much time to go looking for new wildlife, and let me show you a little more of what I saw yesterday here along the river in Metz, just in case. There’s a low spillway right in front of our hotel, where I showedContinue reading “More Metz…”

After a nice, long, and fast train ride through France, we arrived in Metz, on “the banks of the Moselle and the Seille rivers,” yesterday afternoon. Even better, nearly as soon as we checked into our hotel room, I could see goslings out the window! How’s that for a warm welcome? These happen to beContinue reading “Meet some of the birds of Metz…”

It really is right on the Lake Geneva shoreline, and there were no fires today, thank goodness, but that song is seriously stuck in my head right now. Since we’re sitting in a train for much of today, here are some pictures from our excursion to the other end of Lake Geneva yesterday afternoon. NearlyContinue reading “We all came out to Montreux…”

If you recognized the tufted duck in yesterday’s post and then guessed “Europe,” you were correct! Please wait six to eight weeks for your prize to arrive. In any case, the particular spot in Europe to which Anne has dragged me this time is Geneva, Switzerland, and I am sad to say that I haveContinue reading “Greetings from Switzerland!”

But I do know exactly when I’ll be back again. Anne’s been off with her sister visiting their niece for a week, and when you read this, I’ll be just about there to join them for a few days. Instead of simply saying where, here’s a picture of a duck I hope to see. CanContinue reading “Leaving on a Jet Plane…”

Flickr was having problems this afternoon, so if the pictures don’t come through, wait a while and try again later. That’s what I had to do just to get them into this post. After the crazy warm-up yesterday afternoon, some normality has returned to the weather this morning, but before it did, I got toContinue reading “Back to “early” spring weather…”

I wrote this yesterday morning, but I somehow failed to publish it, and I only just found it now. Ugh! The first line of thunderstorms has now rolled through, so the fog has thinned out a bit, but boy, it sure was thick earlier this morning. As luck would have it, our latest visitor choseContinue reading “It’s hard to hide a schnoz like that…”