[TheForge] bobcat OT:

[Bruce Freeman]

Not as lush as is commonplace in the East.  Nowhere near.  You have to
go to Oregon before you begin to see that, and even that is restricted
to west of the Cascades.  We get a punctillist landscape every spring
when the bud enlarge and burst into fruit, flowers or leaves.  We get
lush greenery and thousands of birds from spring through summer.  In
autumn, we get colors that burn brightly, utterly amazing.  And in
winter we get peacefully cloaked with snows, and go out skiing!

I remember the seasons in So. Cal. -- Spring came in February with a
bit of green.  In places this might remain till June, but mostly it
was hot and dry and smoggy all summer -- which was most of the year.
In autumn, anything that wasn't already dead, died, and the Santa Ana
winds blew through, feeding the annual fires that always seem to catch
the residents by surprise.  Then comes October, when it rains 40 days
and 40 nights till the sewers backed up and flooded the streets and
the now-bare hillsides turn to mud and slide into the valleys,
carrying any remaining houses that weren't burned down by the fires.
That also always seemed to catch the residents by surprise.  And this
cycle has been going on for at least the last half century!

In Calif., the evergreens might be more aptly called the onlygreens.

No. Calif. is somewhat better but still excessively hot.  Nice if
you're a farmer who can get 3 crops a year.  But of course you must
irrigate like mad, and in so doing yo drain the aquifer and poison the
waterfoul with the residual selenium.

It is amazing how soothing the color green can be.  I moved back East
30 years ago, and I'm staying!

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:25 AM, peter fels <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> It gets lusher as you go north Bruce.
> On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>
>> But the creeks stop running in summer.  I like it in NJ where they run
>> all year.  Kayaking, here I come.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Andy Gladish <gladish at cablerocket.com> wrote:
>>> Subject: Re: [TheForge] bobcat OT:
>>>
>>> <They are short on tails and cross-kitty empathy.
>>> <Just took a quick walk down at San Carporforo Cr and beach. The creek is
>>> running briskly out to sea and the fields of bright yellow  sourgrass are
>>> shining in the intervals of sun.
>>>
>>> My first look at Cal. was in November, Solvang area- couldn't figure out why
>>> anyone would live there, but when I came back in the spring and the hills
>>> were glowing green and splashed with what looked like golden liquid
>>> sunshine, I started to "get" it...
>>>
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