The Fallbrook Mall used to be a regular indoor mall but they changed it and there is no indoor hallways anymore. Everything has an outside door now. It's like a giant strip mall. I don't have an opinion one way or the other about that. The stores I go to are still there, so I have no problem with it.
Echinopsis 'Los Angeles' is blooming again.
Echinopsis NOID is blooming again.
Amaryllis NOID is blooming again.
There is a woman who came out to CA from Iowa with her husband during the Gold Rush and eventually they went back to Iowa. She wrote about her experiences and said that she would always remember CA as the land of sunshine and flowers.