January 27, 2010

My daughter and her husband live in Los Angeles. I visit them three or four times a year. Grudgingly, I've found myself looking forward to my visits, praising the landscape there. Its fragrance is sharp, resinous - palm and live oak, an understory of grey xeriscape. I have fallen in love with its textures, its sky, its bright winter light, all foreign to the forest here.

It has become so sweet to be there, and so good to return.


Photo copyright 2010, C. M. Alexander