"You Are So Beautiful"
July 9, 2009
The San Bernardino, San Gabriel and San Jacinto Mountains are "out". It is difficult for me to believe that this is the month of July. The view of the mountains more resembles the month of November when they are before us in all their "purple mountain majesty".
I can remember when we moved to Redlands in July of 1967. The real estate agent would talk about "view property" and how special it was. For us, having grown up in the flat lands of Ohio, we really could not picture what a mountain view might be like. Quite frankly, in 1967 we did not see the mountains until after Labor Day in September. Then we knew. I wrote to my friends in Ohio: "This must be the most beautiful place in the world." And when the mountains are in full view, the real estate clients being transferred to this area seem to agree.
This morning was clear and bright and as I drove to work the mountains were "out". You could see clear down to the tip of the San Gabriels and to Mt. San Jacinto looming over Palm Springs.
It was interesting to me to see a headline article in the Riverside Press Enterprise that announced we have had fewer smoggy days than in the past two years. Perhaps all our emission control regulations have had an effect. For whatever reasons we can certainly echo a number of musical refrains to describe the beauty of Southern California's Inland Empire.
"You Are So Beautiful"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"...the purple mountains majesty" and so on.
The San Bernardino, San Gabriel and San Jacinto Mountains are "out". It is difficult for me to believe that this is the month of July. The view of the mountains more resembles the month of November when they are before us in all their "purple mountain majesty".
I can remember when we moved to Redlands in July of 1967. The real estate agent would talk about "view property" and how special it was. For us, having grown up in the flat lands of Ohio, we really could not picture what a mountain view might be like. Quite frankly, in 1967 we did not see the mountains until after Labor Day in September. Then we knew. I wrote to my friends in Ohio: "This must be the most beautiful place in the world." And when the mountains are in full view, the real estate clients being transferred to this area seem to agree.
This morning was clear and bright and as I drove to work the mountains were "out". You could see clear down to the tip of the San Gabriels and to Mt. San Jacinto looming over Palm Springs.
It was interesting to me to see a headline article in the Riverside Press Enterprise that announced we have had fewer smoggy days than in the past two years. Perhaps all our emission control regulations have had an effect. For whatever reasons we can certainly echo a number of musical refrains to describe the beauty of Southern California's Inland Empire.
"You Are So Beautiful"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"...the purple mountains majesty" and so on.
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