California Dreamin', part 3

For this last glimpse of Davis, CaliforniaI offer you thisfrom the central park

Overhanging the bench -artichokes!

I'd never before seen an artichoke growingand it made me laughto see it so boldly there.
The first thing that came to mindwas a descriptive paragraph written by one of my 11th grade English studentsnearly 30 years ago.
The student described a woman in a blue scarfstanding in an artichoke field.
The image was so vivid that I've carried it in my mindall these many years -
So intriguing, the words and imagesthat stay with us,don't you think?
A woman in a blue scarfstanding in an artichoke field.
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