Let’s Go Outdoors! Adventure Guide is out posted by Ruth Paget

The Let’s Go Outdoors! Adventure Guide from the Monterey Peninsula Regional Park District for Fall 2025/Winter 2026 is here.

Some of the neat activities include:

-Mushroom Mania Hike

-Owl Encounter Presentation

-Making Cordage from Native Plants

-Tule Mat Weaving

-Solar System Strol

-Steinbeck Views

-Farm Discovery: Winter Watersheds 

-Beginning Birding

-Native American Celebration Film

Check out the website for more details:

www.mprpd.org

Happy Trails!

Posted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Pounding Pacific Waves Video at Pebble Beach, California by Ruth Paget

Lots of pounding waves this morning at Pebble Beach, California.  Photo and text by Ruth Paget

High tide coming in three waves at a time is impressive.

By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Backgammon Club at Marina Public Library Beginning November 4, 2025 reposted by Ruth Paget

For 18+ year old players, there is a backgammon club starting at Marina (California) Public Library beginning on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (Part of the Monterey County Free Libraries)

I have posted details about this event from the online calendar of the Monterey County Weekly calendar below:

https://www.montereycountynow.com/events/#/details/backgammon-club/17239822/2025-11-04T16

Players can bring their own sets, if they would like.

Game on!

Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Living History Days at San Juan Bautista on November 1, 2025

Meet Mountain Men, Civil War Soldiers, and Victorian ladies at San Juan Bautista’s State Historic Park beginning November 1, 2025 from 11 to 4.  Historic food on sale.

I have reposted details about this event from the Monterey County Weekly’s online calendar below:

https://www.montereycountynow.com/events/#/details/living-history-days/14410908/2025-11-01T11

Check out the Mission and Fault Line walk to the cemetary, too.

Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Sketching at the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, California reposted by Ruth Paget

Learn to sketch and draw using the artwork at The Monterey Museum of Art beginning on Saturday, October 25, 2025.

I have reposted details about this event from the Monterey County Weekly online calendar below:

https://www.montereycountynow.com/events/#/details/sketching-in-the-galleries/16300851/2025-10-25T12

See how the master artists put together their work in this challenging event.

Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Brown Pelicans Flying in the Surf at Pebble Beach, California by Ruth Paget

Most of this video is good.  I tried to get an overhead shot of a brown pelican and came up with blue sky. 

Several other brown pelicans flew through the waves for me:

Rough surf and storms wash fish and seafood up close to shore where birds have an easier time catching it.

Video and text by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

Seagull Unfazed by Crashing Waves at Pebble Beach, California posted by Ruth Paget

One lone seagull at Pebble Beach, California this morning

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Photo by Laurent Paget

This stately seagull almost looks like a swan.  She is unfazed by the crashing, rough surf at Pebble Beach, California.

Posted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France