[TheForge] bobcat OT:

[peter fels]

On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:

> 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!

Snow and ice1...burrr! I sort of regard NE winters  as = to Ca summers..except the temp is a bit more comfy and not quite as inconvenient.
N and So Ca are almost different states.  And being a coastal yokel, i have very little idea what goes on inland.
Being a Valley Boy i'm real familiar with the burn and slide seasonal dance, and unfortunately, this place is just on the Chaparral side of that climatological divide.  Kinda regret not being farther north.
> 
> 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!

And i'd rather they all stayed down there for the most part.
> 
> In Calif., the evergreens might be more aptly called the onlygreens.
> 
> No. Calif. is somewhat better but still excessively hot.

Inland.

> 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.

Central valley..sometimes think of the folks who are in selenium deficient
parts of the world and wonder if there's an ignored medicinal plant export market ignored.
> 
> 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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