It's this troca, slowly pulling onto the I-5 north, with driver on cellphone:

It's where you take a walk at the beach and run into this:

It’s this view of the Saddleback Valley from the Aliso Summit Trail:

It’s almost sitting on this little slithery venomous badass (otherwise known as a juvenile southern pacific rattlesnake -- the most unpredictable and temperamental of our local rattlesnakes) while taking a break during a 12-mile hike.

It’s where the hill I live on was once home to the Acjachemen people, then Spanish rancheros, then Basque sheepherders, then the Moulton Company, and now me.

It’s the good better best triumvirate of Pedro’s Tacos, Baja Fish Tacos and La Sirena.

It’s where an entire island can be owned by a chewing gum family.

It’s where people try to get away with wearing visors off of the tennis court. (for BNK)

It's the beat-up, beautifully unbalanced trocas.

It's:

(for JWH)

It's where some nincompoop places this on your husband's car while it's parked at the office:

Two Peas in Podperson Attire

It's So Cal goes off topic for a moment to make a very important observation...

Has anyone else noticed that Paul Ryan dresses like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

If clothes make the man, and these men wear the same clothes... BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

It's this practical joke, OC-style. 

From Peter:

It’s a yoga class in the ocean on stand-up paddleboards.

It’s the lady who is offered a glass of ice water at the restaurant, but refuses it and sends the waiter back to instead bring her “a glass of water with just one ice cube in it.”

It's:

It's living on an active earthquake fault located eight miles underneath your house.

It’s the albino squirrels of Dana Point Harbor.

It's starry succulents:

It’s the fit-looking older gentleman at the adjacent table in the fancy restaurant proclaiming, “I’d much rather have some chilled carrots than a bowl of chocolate ice cream for dessert.”

It's the prettiest little "drains to ocean" warning sign I've ever seen.

It's where true dudes walk barefoot in the wintertime.

It's a surfboard rack on a Schwinn.