Living in Santa Cruz is incredible and beautiful but these are the mountains I miss, rich with sagebrush and chaparral in the Sespe Wilderness.  Some people say if you grow up near mountains, you’ll always feel a need to be close to them.  Perhaps for you it’s the wide open sky above grasslands, an ocean, a river, or the desert.  Phoebe is growing up in several natural environments around California.  I wonder what she will feel a need for…