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wcgypsy said:I'm from California and I spent a couple of different Winters in Iowa, so I do know what she was talking about....it was unusual for me, but since I'd always longed for snow, I enjoyed the Winters. The MOST unusual thing for me was the lack of fences between houses in the city......one of the prettiest things was cardinals and rows and rows of lilacs...oddly enough, if my best friend there were still living, I think I could gl back there....

Sounds a lot like PA. I wasn't really keen on the winters, but I wish we had cardinals out here. Back in the days of yore, someone tried to get them established out here, but in my lifetime, there were only some at Whittier Narrows and those might have all died out by now. We went looking about 20 years ago and didn't see any.