City dwellers don't happen across such a pretty place all that often, in Los Angeles, California, or really anywhere else. For sure, parks, with their lush and varied treescapes and bounties of ...

The olives hang on their branches now, pendulous, green and hard. On the "Manzanillo' trees they dangle like lopsided cherries, swaying on slender stems in ones, twos and threes. Oblong, pointed ...