The steady greening of the valley continues, with now even
the Magnolias bursting into bloom.
Many buildings here use a strange, textured finish on their
interior and exterior walls. Not
unattractive, but slightly monotonous and almost impossible to wallpaper. Mock adobe?
Roads are multi-laned, speed limits are high (45MPH on a lot
of streets, 75 on the highways), cities are sprawled out, public transit is low-priority but since you can only get anywhere by car, every store needs
extensive parking. Sprawl.
Guns are endemic, with what appears to be a daily shooting
somewhere in this city of 4 million. My
favourite so far: police were called to break up a shoot-out between a man and
his girlfriend. No one died that time.
Street-legal here
Elaborate flower on a bush
Pretty
A shooting in Mesa today! yikes! Hurry back, folks!
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