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...showy blooms that most everyone else loves. So three years ago, right after buying his first house, he set out to uproot the prize roses the previous owners had planted. While neighbors looked on in horror, he tore out the camellias too. In their place he put California poppies, fragrant sage and drought-tolerant manzanita. "Where everything is lush and green, maybe it's appropriate to grow roses," explains Wheatley. "But here it just doesn't feel right. For me it's almost a spiritual thing. The plants in my garden belong to the deserts of this region, and having...
Inevitably, the reds held the most prestige and generated the greatest envy. The pinks triggered endless whispers and speculations in the locker rooms. And a fragrant assortment of reds and pinks was a true symbol of status and reputation...
NESTLED IN A STAND OF FRAGRANT EUCAlyptus trees at the Embarcadero Road entrance to the campus of Stanford University is a billboard advertising the home schedule of the varsity football team. But the larger-than-life image on the billboard that causes motorists to pause is that of a man with a mane of white hair beckoning them to turn in on a Saturday afternoon, park their cars, fill the 85,500 seats at Stanford Stadium and watch him lead the local student athletes to the promised land. Which, in the vernacular of Stanford football, means the Rose Bowl game...
...Pygmies have historically kept to the west side of the river. With ample game in the more accessible forests, they have had no need to risk a crossing. At this point, though, I am not thinking of hardship but rather of the beauty of the grassy river, the fragrant smells floating through the clean air, and the world that lies beyond the east bank of the Ndoki...
Think of it as your neighborhood. Your neighbors. Thirty years ago, that's what 12-year-old John Harrison had in his mind as he pedaled his bicycle from the gritty flatlands of north Oakland uphill to Lake Temescal. Nestled in a gentle curve of hills and shaded by fragrant eucalyptus, many of the well- tended homes offered postcard views of San Francisco Bay. To Harrison and thousands of others, the enclaves -- Upper Rockridge, Montclair, Broadway Terrace, Hiller Highlands -- were about as close to heaven as anyone could get and still be earthbound...