California Burning

California symbolized paradise to most Americans and millions deserted their hometowns to populate the Pacific state during the latter part of the 20th Century. Towns became cities and cities spread into the mountains as well as up the coast. Gone is the Los Angeles River, the orange groves, and girls in bikinis. The river is dry, the orange groves are suburbs, and the girls are fat, but even worse is the suburban sprawl has overstepped into the scenery and this week home owners in Santa Barbara were attacked by Mother Nature as wind-whipped flames flashed across arid slopes to scorch multi-million dollars houses.

Burn baby burn.

Thousands have been evacuated from the path of these fires.

"When will they ever learn, when they they ever learn?" from the song WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE.

Obviously no time soon but then that's why we love California.

It can always be re-invented as somethign else.