Eating Out in Our Foothills

PHOTO REFLECTIONS

A deer eating out in La Cañada Flintridge (Photo – Martin Green)

I’ve hiked in areas of the U.S. where the only vegetation in sight is grass, in others where tens of thousands of trees are as close to identical as the eye can tell, and in still others where the ground is so flat that you can see the curvature of the earth.

By Reg Green

Wildlife in those places has a diet as unchanging as that of Oliver Twist’s workhouse. By contrast, in our foothills, evergreen shrubs and bushes, deciduous, pine and palm trees live as close together as condo dwellers.

For outdoor diners here, the menu offers as much variety as the Louis XIV in Monaco. And it’s free.