"On a February morning, when a weather front is moving in off the Pacific but has not quite arrived, and the winds are changeable and gusty and clouds drive over and an occasional flurry of fine rain darkens the terrace bricks, this place conforms to none of the clichés about California with which they advertise the Sunshine Cities for the Sunset years. No bland sky, no cool morning overcast, no placid afternoons fading into chilly evenings. This is North Sea weather. The sky boils with cloud, the sun glares out now and then like the opening eye of a doped patient, and the brief gleam of intelligence it shoots forth lights on the hills and turns a distant subdivision into a view over Toledo." Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:39:58 +0000
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