Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Summer Skies Shower Sunshine on
Los Angeles and Birds and Flow
ers Rejoice in the Balmy
Southern Air

w HILE the mercury in the east is
w knocking the bottoms out of the
W thermometers and digging holes
in the ground to get far enough down
to register the right degree, Los An
geles is enjoying it's same old balmy,
vernal weather.
Blue skies, a golden sun, Hesperian
groves, green hills-and songbird med
| lies. That is Southern California in a
| nutshell, but 1t would require more Dig
nuts that Los Angeles county can pro-
duce to tell of the many other delight
| full features which constitute the JOY,
| wealth. beauty, fame and grandeur OF
| this perennial paradise of flowers ana
sunshine.
There were three days of rain-magtc
| bounteous, welcome rain-then the sun
| came out and we emerged from the
| mists of PluviuS to find ourselves again
in the glowing grandeur of Southern
| California winter. Our little WONDER
world, though it had seemed perfect
and incompatible before, grew sudden
ly more wonderful, more beautiful than
ever though we had scarcely realized
that even the magic of shower could
SO improve it. The Verdant orange
groves, cleaning with their wealth OF
yellow fruit and redolent, snow-Wh1te
DlOSSOI1lSs were NY q ASASAt
brighter green, sparkling with the
week.-mrs. gems-the diamond dewdrops
that in the first kisses of the dawn, as
yesterdays sun assembled from the
roseate cradle OF the east, appeared
like irridescent firedrops smuggling
among the leaves.
The lemon groves, the newly bur-
geoned deciduous orchards, the long
avenues of stately Nucalypti, the arbor
vitae and lime and cypress hedges
along the streets and interurban boule-
wards, the variegated foliage of the
parks, the magnolias, the fan and
spreading palms, the old-fashioned
oleanders, the acacias, the banana
trees, the bougainvillea and honey
suc,Sle vines and the roses and lilies
and myriads of fiowerin-: shrubs which
constitute part of the floral wealth OF
sunny Southern California, all con-
tributed their share toward 1.-THE IN
spring incense of the day." the eX-
hilerating fragrance waited on every
zephyr from the vale and plain and
mesa, and all of them seemed to be
more beautiful and bright from their
three days bath-a bath in which they
had seeed to be submerged and lost
to us.
Yesterday Unsurpassed
Where could we hope ever to find a
more transcendant day than yesterday?
Not in Spain, with all of her romantic
chateaux and dreamy vineyards; not in
France, despite her picturesque wales
and historic landmarks; not in Italy,
even with her mirror-lakes and ancient
woods and palaces; not anywhere, for
it was one of those master triumphs of
the weather man and the joint product
of a climate without an equal.
Only Southern California can produce
them-for Southern California, when it
t.. kIwyl
alone and unparalleled; supreme in her
solar riches as in her fertility and
beauty. She loves to make June of
January. 1t is part of her soulful
scheme to confuse us. And hoary WIN
ter, roaming among her dells, seems to
be tasting of the fountain for which
Ponce de Leon once sought through
many climes and regions.
Winter is never hoary here, but al |
ways young and golden-haired and
buoyant. He gives us flowers instead
of frost, roses instead of snow, grass
instead of ice, petals instead of mud, |
foliage instead of fogs, sunshine,
winged minstrels, butterflies, humming
birds, redolence instead of sleet and |
slush and blizzards.
The streets and parks were crowded |
yesterday Everybody seemed to have |
come out, like the grounding, to see |
his shadow, as though they had all |
really been alternating. Yet we ex-
perienced but three days of shower
three days of magic rain that trans
formed the ploughmans furrow into a |
row of corn or other product, and made |
of the barren field a stretch of emerald |
undulationr a meadow of sparkling |
grass, or a maze of yegetation.
How glad everyone seemed to be that
the rain had come just as we needed it,
and how glad they seemed to be when
it was overl Three days-and they
lust like weeks to usI
We did not stop to think of our