That Sweet Smell of Oranges

I made my first trip to California as a Navy WAVE via troop train (“A Little Less California Dreamin’ These Days,” by Rick Wartzman, From First and Spring, Aug. 20). My mother always had a yen to live in California and told me “to get there, then she would.”

I marveled at every nostalgic point Wartzman made. Didn’t he smell the orange blossoms even before he could see the miles of orange groves? That impressed me the most at the time.

Patricia Ostrye

Sierra Madre