The emigrant's destiny: The foreign country has not become home, but home has become foreign.
--Alfred Polger (d. 1955), Der Emigrant und die Heimat
Emigranten-Schicksal: Die Fremde ist nicht Heimat geworden. Aber die Heimat Fremde.
Between 2007 and 2009, I lived in Los Angeles after living in Paris for many years. My Paris blog (before and after my Los Angeles sojourn) is Rue Rude.
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This is the driest year since 1877 in Los Angeles. I don't remember a drop of rain the whole summer. Los Angeles is a desert, and real clouds in the sky are occasion for rejoicing. Yet the flowers are still blooming everywhere, and armies of gardeners appear at dawn in the rich parts of town.
"Don't waste that water," said C darkly as I let the water run. "It comes from 800 miles away."
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In Paris, the purest virtue is the object of the filthiest slander.
–Honoré Balzac (1799-1850), in Scènes de la vie privée
À Paris, la vertu la plus pure est l'objet des plus sales calomnies.
Annual Geminids meteor shower (shooting stars!) coming this weekend, if it's not too cloudy out at night.
Sounds like the situation in San Francisco when I moved there in the late 1980s. The lack of water is just a reality there. Too many people. Not sustainable.
Posted by: Ken | 18 September 2008 at 16:43
I was so impressed with the California Aqueduct when I saw it in the middle of the dry, brown valley up north. Pretty daunting achievement and a sorry basis for building up a giant mega-city like LA... (All this is making me thirsty!)
Posted by: jetcat | 19 September 2008 at 04:13
It generally does not rain in the summer in LA in non-drought years.
Posted by: | 20 September 2008 at 04:15
I am soooooooo longing for a nice rainy day! Water the plants, Clean the air... Cool this heat wave! A nice pot of soup! A fire in the fireplace! A sweater!
So much for Fall cool weather... we need to do a rain dance!
Posted by: Fifi Flowers | 25 September 2008 at 19:45