2023 Saturday — Looking

Across the street behind our SoCal house, neighbors appear to be starting a construction project (see upper right collage photo). We listened to demolition noises all throughout this day. It's always interesting to learn what they are doing. So, we'll be looking curiously and occasionally over the fence.

As we look across the street, we are looking over the borderline of the city just to the north of us. When my parents first purchased this home back in spring of 1964, across that street was a wide open field, a grazing land for sheep and sheep herders. We have watched a little country town progress into a metropolis with a huge population explosion, and the expansion of the original freeway east/west thru the community from a 4-lane highway to at least 8 lanes and major transition ramps and then approximately 35 years ago another freeway was built that is north/south and the junction of the two is one of the most known traffic-gridlock areas in SoCal.

Near the east/west freeway the trains transport mega volumes of product and merchandise thru our geography, also passengers on the Amtrak to far away places, and the morning/afternoon commuters; all on the same tracks. Many of the streets that cross over the tracks have now been made into overpasses so street city traffic can keep moving. If we want to get across town in a hurry, we know to take an overpass street, rather than one that causes us to roll across the tracks and possibly be stuck waiting for a long, long freight train. We do love the sound of the train as it sings its way through this community that we have called "home" for the majority of our lives.

From Southern California,
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol
and Chloe & Mitzi too!