A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

[The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange.

Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.

We need to reclaim the ethical high ground of what California should mean,

All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state.

I think it's human nature that when you score three goals as fast as we did, you have a tendency to think how good you are and how easy it is. In hockey, goals can come in bunches, and that's what happened.