Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12
WINTER II CALIFORNIA.
I Climate OF Eternal Spring Fringed
With Perpetual SNOW.

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With Perpetual SNOW.
| Much has been said and sung about the
/ q" Climate of California We viii not re
| strict it to southern California, for the whole
! State has a climate to be proud Of that has
| been praised till The Glorious Climate of
! California has become q proyelb known
| to all lands. 50 that the simple q. c. Of c."
IS as familiar aud well coniprehended as
! I. 0. Q. T." Visitors from the East come
! to enjoy climate and coming as they
mostly dO-in nid-winter-they mark the
! great difference between the snowbanks
and ice-bOund streams Of their land, and
| the green fields, orange trees and 4 multi
tUde Of flowers that greet them on every
side here, until they eXciaim in surprise:
| This IS spTlng-nOt winter The great
change acts upon them like recess on the
school-boy, and they romp and play and
throw up their hats in exuberance
If Joy This is our winter compared
to the same season at the East.
but not winter in the gloomy acceptance of
the term. Ii is merely an extension of
September to May-an immense suspension
bridge across the gloomy gull usually de
nominated winter. 1t is the play of
" Winter with winter left out A rainy
day will come now and then and cause a
dull day or two, while King Mud holds
high carnival, but the bright sun breaks
through and the whole face of nature lights
up with a brilliant smile the birds carol
their sweetest notes; every green thing
seems to leap into renewed life and activ-
ity; in a few hours the mud has disap-
peared, and the visitor eXclaims with as
constituent, I" This is not winter, but
spring" They cannot comprehend it.
Even calling it spring, how does itcompare
with their season of the same name?
III fha Mill hide ifs
after day, two or three weeks at time,
till it seems as if it had been entirely
blotted from the universe, while here
a week without sunshine is almost
unknown. This glorious winter sunshine
gives us the delicious atmosphere that
cheers the invalid, giving new strength and
lite, invigOTates the tiller of the soil. and
makes the very earth laugh with the pros
poets Of a brilliant harvest. This is our
winter, the Joyous springti1ne, making the
heart glad, and preparing the way for the
delicious fruits and boUnteous harvests.
Then comes a time when the rains cease to
fall and summer is here when the hUs-
bandman knows that fruit can be gathered
and crops garnered without fear of thun-
der-sh0wers. cyclones, or any of the draw
backs that, like the sword of Damocles,
hang over the heads of our less favored
Eastern brethren, He knows that if the
WOTk IS NOT all seizure at UlEuudll ne GILL
commence the next day where he left of
the night before, without fear that con-
vulsion of nature will wreck what has
already been accomplished. When the
heat of the midday sun is oppressive he
can retire TO the cooling shade, knowing
that what is done is safe and there is no
hurry about the future. That is our sum
mer. Let the Eastern man compare it
with his and draw his own conclusions.
To thoroughly appreciate our climate the
visitor should reside here a full year and
see all seasons-he cannot form any truth
full idea without. Our cool, delicious sum
mer evenings would be as much q reyela-
ton to him as our verdant winters, and
would be as much enjoyed. The lack of
moisture in the atmosphere gives the stars
a peculiar brilliancy they possess in no
other part OF this land, and the moonlit
nights cover the earth here with an efful-
gence such as can be seen in no other coun-
try. Winter and summer are alike glori-
Gus, each in its way, and both combined
give to the glorious climate of California
that charm that has made it famous over
the whole world-RiJerside Press.