[gardeners] Re: Our gardens

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> My name is Joy, and I live in the Santa Cruz mountains on about 30 acres of
> a community owned property....
> .... 
> I love my ranch!

   I can well imagine. Remember desperately driving back & forth on the
ridge road above - ?Redwood City, I think - because someone with a rather
less than perfect command of English had given me bass-ackwards directions
to one of the more famous California native plant nurseries.... the old
German lady, who I later learned favors European interns; you can probably
name her in an instant.
   And thinking, hey, these beautiful high dry hills look a lot like a few
parts of northeast/northcentral Kansas I sometimes have occasion to drive
through in summer on the way to the closest thing we've got around here to
a free beach.
   Also, on finally discovering the correct road and turning right and right
and right again back down into the not-exactly-northern-California redwoods,
(near closing time didn't help but can hardly be blamed for all) thinking
that I wouldn't come down that road again even to kill myself, because it
was too damn depressing.
   Not, I imagine, that *real* redwoods would affect me much differently. 

> I love Santa Cruz!
> 
   Yeah, if it wasn't for all the damn vampires....

   bk---

Supposes there are better candidates for the "Santa Carla" of the movie,
but at the time did think he recognized bits and pieces of the pier, etc.

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