It was a gray day at Gray Lodge. A Double-crested Cormorant stands sentinel on a stump in a pond at the California Wildlife Area known as Gray Lodge the other day. The infamous valley tule fog, that was absent for so many years during the drought, has returned. My photography club had a field trip to Gray Lodge on Monday. Driving there, the fog was dense from my home all the way to Gray Lodge with visibility down to probably 100 feet or less. The lights of cars that passed quickly disappeared from view and the fog enveloped the roadway making it feel like driving through a white tunnel. Once at Gray Lodge, the visibility was only slightly improved. We walked the main trail and drove the loop seeing few birds and those we saw were mostly obscured in the mist. In this shot, all of the distracting background elements are obscured by the dense fog.