Excerpt from The Vulgarians

April had been petulant and even savage, but May had succeeded her with skyfuls of bland blue above, and with timid yet diligent greeneries below. In this far Western town, built on a flat plain, whence the Rockies, with their scintillant summits, were distinctly visible, Nature seemed to have laid herself down as if from fatigue. She had done such dazzling things, you might have said, a hundred miles eastward, that she had taken a sort of blank breathing-spell before greeting the Pacific with that new occidental Italy which has been named California.

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