Southern California . {/-£ iiii^ b. and the rows ofcottonwoods bythe roadside, andthe alders alongthe arroyo areleafing out indelicate springgreen, when greatfleecy cloudsare piled about the mountain tops, making the skybetween them a deeper, more transparent blue thanever — he who is so fortunate as to see the San Bernar-dino Valley at this time will feel while he is under itsspell that it is the loveliest spot on earth. The meadowlark by the roadside sounds its loud, sweet flute call,and the irrigating ditch ripples along, reflecting now thegreen of the meadow and again the blue of heaven. I
Southern California . {/-£ iiii^ b. and the rows ofcottonwoods bythe roadside, andthe alders alongthe arroyo areleafing out indelicate springgreen, when greatfleecy cloudsare piled about the mountain tops, making the skybetween them a deeper, more transparent blue thanever — he who is so fortunate as to see the San Bernar-dino Valley at this time will feel while he is under itsspell that it is the loveliest spot on earth. The meadowlark by the roadside sounds its loud, sweet flute call,and the irrigating ditch ripples along, reflecting now thegreen of the meadow and again the blue of heaven. Itis a land wherein the poet may dream dreams and thepainter see visions. It is a land which ought in thecourse of time produce a race of poets and painters — asecond Greece ! Here stretches the new vale of rise the heights of a second Parnassus and Olym-pus. In such mountain fastnesses, impenetrable andremote, where clouds rolled amid the mighty pine forestsor rested upon austere and barren summits of rock andsnow,
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