I grew up in Vancouver and love it dearly, but Deckman, you might consider arranging for some desert time. You might be amazed, as I was, at how beautful it is, *including* the biology of it. I suppose I just aged faster than dianavan, but I can't take the full time rain anymore. My aim in retirement is to travel up and down the coast repeatedly.

(open mike's 80 acres of meadows and (year round?) creek was tormenting me all weekend. I very nearly went to scope it out on a whim.)