hell and back...

what is the color when black is burned...
I went into SB ..the Sansum Clinic for a check on a possible bone spur..."wear better boots" says the doc! ok so I'll get a pair of Vasque hikers for $199 instead of these Big -5 $19 foot-killers..anyway, I felt like I was in a foreign country when I arrived..it was hot..real hot in the afternoon..this area is at the bottom of the Chumash Highway and people are speeding around or driving like they are on smack...geez, make up your minds or get outta my way..the intersection at Pesetas and Calle Real is a dead zone..people wait and wait and wait when they should be aggressive and GO GO GO! FIX this area...people are in a hurry to get up to the Casino and half of them are drunk...so I go into the clinic and it's nice and cool with a bunch of broken people limping and wandering around and a few babes in tank tops and shorts and sandals..finger lickin' good! I know I should have been a gynocologist..damn..
So I'm a little early and start walking around and I look at the mountains...they look sickly, too..a weird artificial green color in patches across the range throughout the burn areas...the hydromulch or astroturf...looks bad...it's getting hotter..I'm sweating... and I think about the casino which is probably at least 115 degrees in Santa Ynez..whew, why would anyone want to go there in this heat unless they are lizards...hey, let's all go to the casino, get over-heated, get drunk, and lose a lot of money... and die behind the wheel!
this place is starting to creep me out so after the doc visit I get in the truck and haul ass out of the parking lot and onto the highway, whick looks like hell's little brother...bumper to bumper until Montecito then it thins out by Summerland..then we hit the cool ocean and the greenbelt of Carpinteria..I slow down to look at Caltrans massacre of the highway plants, then take the frontage road home..I wish people would realize how good they have it and just leave things alone sometimes...