California

[Guest guest]

We just got back from a little spring RV jaunt

to California. Folks, I am in love.

 

We traveled the whole North Coast down to

Aptos near Santa Cruz, where an old friend from

here ended up. It wasn't as warm as I had hoped,

but the flowers! And the lush green! And the shape

of those oaks!

 

Much quieter than the Oregon coast too. It does

take forever. Twisting, up and down, 30 miles

per hour and worth it.

 

I could have stopped at every interesting looking

plant but of course that is never possible.

We kept seeing these beautiful blue flowering bushes

that looked sort of like Rosemary, except Rosemary

doesn't get that big, does it?? ( I believe down there

it does).

 

Trilliums in the redwoods.

Clumps of white Calla lillies everywhere.

Dunes covered in colorful icefowers.

Something with HUGE blue flowering cones

that I never saw before, both wild and in the

wild.

 

Maybe we got a particularly flattering view of

the place. But now at least I understand why so

many people want to move to the land of quakes

and flakes.

 

Ien in the Kootenays, where spring is trying hard

and I just saw a coltsfoot, yeah!

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You ought to be Thankful,

a Whole Heaping Lot

for the places and people

you're lucky you're not!

~Dr Seuss

who is this Kootenay person anyway?

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