Word: scrublands
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Greener Mansions. Late one night last week the winds, whipping across the tinder-dry, drought-grey brush and scrubland of the foothills, picked up a flicker of fire on the slope called Zuma Ridge. Instantly, a mass of blood-red flames burst forth like an explosion. Soon, the winds pushed the flames down the ridge toward the highway and the sea, then fanned the flames north and east, chewing up everything that lay in their path...
Virtually in retirement for the last four years, he now tramps the orchard which his modern farming ideas have turned from scrubland to a paradise of fruitfulness, or sits in his chair, back to the big log fire, white cat perched on the arm while his wife and longtime secretary (whom he married 14 months ago) works at his correspondence...