. To California and back; . r^—wiiifiwilHii rr^l 65 case could not be otherwise. As for flowers,even here they are not eternal, except in thethousands of watered gardens. In the drysummer season the hills turn brown and when the winter rains have slaked theparched earth do the grass and flowers awake,and then for a few months there is enough ofbloom and fragrance to satisfy the most exu-berant fancy. Now past pretty horticultural communities,flanked by the Sierra Madre, the way leadsquickly from San Bernardino to Pasadena andLos Angeles. Southward from the last-named city you passth
. To California and back; . r^—wiiifiwilHii rr^l 65 case could not be otherwise. As for flowers,even here they are not eternal, except in thethousands of watered gardens. In the drysummer season the hills turn brown and when the winter rains have slaked theparched earth do the grass and flowers awake,and then for a few months there is enough ofbloom and fragrance to satisfy the most exu-berant fancy. Now past pretty horticultural communities,flanked by the Sierra Madre, the way leadsquickly from San Bernardino to Pasadena andLos Angeles. Southward from the last-named city you passthrough a fruitful region, and within a stonesthrow of the impressive mission-ruins of Capis-trano, to a shore where the long waves of thePacific break upon gleaming white sands andthe air is of the sea. Blue as the sky is thePacific, paling in the shallows toward land, andflecked with bright or somber cloud reflectionsand smurring ripples of the breeze. It is notonly the westerly bound of the North AmericanContinent, it is
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