Summer in Virginia

FlowersAs a boy growing up in California I came to feel sorry for people who had to live on the East Coast – particularly in the Northeast – because they had to wear suit and ties, it was too humid, and it was way too crowed. People were stiff and formal “out east”, and with acid rain and pollution it just wasn’t a good place to live.

Of course when I was 26 my wife and I took our two kids to Iowa for 14 years, where they did their growing up. And then it was off to Chicago for a few years. In 1994 I went back to California, this time to Camarillo in Southern California – quite unlike Sacramento where I grew up.

After my late wife passed away – about a year after – I was “transitioned out” of my job. What to do? Thankfully I wasn’t trapped by my boyhood mentality believing that other parts of the country were somehow taboo simply because they were unfamiliar. As the plane lowered itself into the DC suburbs I thought that it looked a lot like Chicago. Indeed it has much in common with that great city. But it is also very different. I had been out here 20 years ago when my grandson was born at Bethesda Naval station. We spent a week with my daughter at Quantico. Fun memories.

Summer in the western suburbs near the Nation’s Capital is beautiful. The flowers above are placed with a dozen other planters on my back deck. My deck looks over my back yard into some dense woods with a creek somewhere in the thicket. Deer, fox, raccoon, squirrels, birds… it has a rather rural feel. In the evening you can sit and watch the fireflies and listen to the frogs croaking and the fox crying (they almost sound like a baby crying).

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Oh, and the state motto says it all: “Virginia is for Lovers!”

So to anyone stuck on the left coast I am here to assure you the right coast isn’t all that bad. As a matter of fact it is a lot of fun.