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California is not Cape May

I'm vacationing on Cape May, NJ.
The landcape is very different.

How?

 To begin with, it's flat as a pancake.
You get used to mountains in the distance in the Bay Area, but without them the horizon is very far away. I get a little nervous, it's so far away.
It's green green, green.  
There are long stretches of lawn that live without irrigation.  Not a redwood in sight.  Hydrangea bushes here are as large as Volvo station wagons. Mosquitoes are plentiful too, unfortunately.  There is a lot of marshland growth, cattails and reeds and lily pads, and pine trees and maples.  Not a redwood or a California poppy in sight.
There are lots of evergreen trees like hemlock and cedar. 
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