expanses

Time and time again, speeding cars have plowed through Plaza Park’s grassy expanses and vibrant rosebushes, demolishing wood benches and slamming into the beloved 88-year-old fountain.

Although they attract around 2 million visitors a year, they also contain vast expanses of largely untraveled wilderness where it is easy to hide these illegal grows.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast expanses of concrete deliver some lovely moments as well as some groans.

California grows more than one-third of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of the nation’s fruits and nuts in the fertile expanses of the Central Valley, Central Coast and other farming regions.

Now, nearly three months later, tidy expanses of soil are all that is left in spaces where structures once stood.