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The life
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Warren Swil
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| My lovely home is nestled on a hillside some 1,700 feet above the city
of Los Angeles on the slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, just 15 miles
from downtown LA but worlds apart. |
The Verdugo Mountains (they’re more like hills, really,
rising only to about 3,000 feet) separate the Crescenta Valley – where
I live – from the rest of the LA basin, so La Crescenta has remained the
wonderful country town of 22,000 souls that it’s been for many years. |
My house
is only
nine minutes
from my
office
in Glendale
(pop. 200,000)
making for the
best commute
to work
of anyone
I know. |
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This picture was taken the day I moved
in, so don't judge the bare garden by it.
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From my front porch (visible under the pine tree
at the top of the steps) on a clear day I can see all the way to Long Beach,
about 35 miles south. At night, the twinkling lights of the downtown skyscrapers
are just visible around the edge of the Verdugos.
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The Rose Bowl is
less than five miles away in Pasadena, and right next
to
it is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – the NASA folks who brought you space
walks, Mars Pathfinder, Jupiter Orbiter … and, more recently, a number
of embarrassingly lost spacecraft. |
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This picture was taken Feb. 11, 2007. My lawn (that
bright green, lush thingy) is five months old. All the neighbors are breathing
a sigh of relief. |
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