Paris and Sacramento

When you move to Sacramento people tell you it is just like Paris.
This is a lie and they know it. What they mean is that there are as many trees per capita as there are in Paris. I don't know about this. I've heard Paris called the "City of Love" but never the "City of Trees." No one has ever come back from Paris and mentioned that the trees were the most fabulous thing they'd seen.

People come back from Paris and mention the Louvre or the Pompidou or the Tower or the food or the chocolate or the fashions. No one ever mentions the trees.

But Sac has TREES. Tons of BIG BIG BIG LEAFY Trees. Big big fruity trees. It said in the paper last month that the city of Sacramento produces over 3 tons of leaf garbage a month during the fall. Oranges just fall off the trees and onto the streets; maiming passerby and cars.

Big fat leafy trees to shade the city from the 105 degree summer sun.

So, of course there are a lot of happy fat frolicking squirrels in Sacramento.

Do you know what it is like to live with two scent hounds, two dogs with 400 years of breeding that says eat and kill squirrels? Well it's hard to take a walk in the park with them without having your arm dislocated or falling and being dragged to the nearest tree. "EAT AND KILL SQUIRRELS!" That's their marching orders and nothing I do can stop it.

Here they are in the redwoods, looking cute, but thinking "EAT AND KILL SQUIRRELS!"

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