And Just Down the Street.......

I was over at a friends house yesterday, doing the 'geek' thing and helping them with a new (old) laptop.  It's probably 6 or 8 blocks from here and on the way home, I saw a really cool looking tree.  It's a Red Flowering Eucalypus Tree.  Very neat flowers that look like oversized bottle brushes and gobs of them.  After flowering, the street and sidewalk are littered with beautiful little red soft bristle pieces. Again, very cool.  I was waiting for the light to change when I snapped this photo.

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Further down Howard Street was this marvelously colored muscle car.  Camaro?  I dunno but it just reminded me of the wild colors around beach towns in Southern Cowlifornia.  Houses are painted with every pastel color in the rainbow in additon to some with wild and crazy colors.  A lot of cars have beautiful and/or wild colors, too.

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One of the strange things about being a transplant is gettng used to the new flora and fauna.  Nothing native to Ohio out here.  Except, on the 'Historic' street in Oxnard ('F' Street).  It's where the first houses were built in 'Downtown Oxnard' in the late 1800's.  Not very historic by East Coast/Midwest standards but it is out here.  What sticks out like a sore thumb to this Ohio reject is that the street is lined, both sides with Sycamore Trees.  These are water loving things that grow wild along Ohio rivers and streams.  I have no clue why someone would bring seeds to the desert, plant them and expect them to grow but they did.  I'm sure the home owners water them regularly but they still lack the true-health beauty of the Ohio version.

That's about it, no revelations or new ways to save the world, just some pretty colored objects and a weird place to plant something that loves gobs of water.......