Green

So my car is definitely dead - kaput - no more.   I do not know what I am going to do BUT I do know that I will resolve it and solve it, somehow - someway.  I will.  It just sucks until I do.  I have mapped out everything that I need for the short run.  It really is incredible I can get to everything important, even the doctor's or pharmacy if I have to, without a car.  It is all within walking range or a bike ride.  I also figured out that if I have a problem with my bike that I even am close to the local repair shop.  If for some reason I have to get outside of Escondido - I can take the bus as there is a stop about a 10 minute walk away.  Or I can take the train since the train station is about a 15 minute bike ride away.  I appreciate the concern.  I apologize for the doom and gloom.  Plenty of people live and have lived without cars.  I count my blessing that I can do so also.

I posted the picture above because I was thinking about it.  I took it when I was in Lowell, MA for my niece's graduation.  Escondido really makes me think a lot of Lowell, and Haverhill too, except not so impossibly green.  That is what really strikes me about this picture - how green it is.  Green is my favorite color.  It always has been and not just because green clothing makes my eyes look amazing.  My other car was green and I loved it.  I also heard that green is a detoxifying color so when I can find grass out here, I like to sit down on it or even better lay down on it and feel like I am detoxing my aura.  Who knows but it certainly is a good excuse to lounge in the grass.

Like Lowell had the textile mills and Haverhill had the shoe mills, Escondido had a very large industry when it what founded that has moved on.  That industry was avocado farms.  Avocados are very green.  Are you seeing how this all ties together?   Anyway back to the picture.  I have not modified it at all and just love how crisp and green it is.  It is so very New England to me.  The graduation was a nice night.  I am so happy for my niece being on the threshold of the future.