Driving through CA, I'm like a kid in the candy store-lots of things captured my attention: mountain ranges, palm trees, those flowering trees w/ the red, purple, and yellow flowers, brittle dry grasses, those towns in the middle of now where, valleys of vineyards, rows and rows of orchard (oranges-still green), almond orchards, cows eating on mountain slope, houses atop mountains slope, cows w/ no green pasture except the good earth underneath their feet, and yes those hill side communities along the steep slope. Also, I love the dry heat even in 100 degree temperature... I could tolerate.