N a t u r e S t r o l l s

Continuing the palm tree discussion, these are date palms lining part of the Salton Sea shore. According to "SeeCaliforniadotcom", date palms were initially planted in the Coachella Valley in the 1890's and their numbers have increased substantially since then. " These acres produce over 40 million pounds of our four primary varieties, which are the Deglet-Noor, the Medjool, the Barhi and the Zahidi. The Coachella Valley Date industry maintains a rather steady employment base of around 2,500 people." (SeeCaliforniadotcom).

This is another Sago Palm.  This one lives at the Fullerton Arboretum in Fullerton California.  Fullerton Arboretum's 15 year lease from the California State University, Fullerton ends in December 2019, when it is feared it will not be renewed and the land may be used for dorms.  Visit  http://masterplan.fullerton.edu/  for more information about the Master Plan and contact information if you wish to email an opinion.

The only palm tree Don (hubby) and I currently grow, is this King Sago Palm, in our front yard.   A Sago (pronounced say'-go) palm is really not a palm tree though.  It is a cycad.  The female, Queen Sago, produces seeds, and the male, King Sago, produces cones.  Ours has yet to produce anything at all.  

Greetings! I started out with this particular blog being devoted to poetry.  My poetry.  It turns out that, while I used to enjoy writing it as a teen, I don't seem to be too talented these days.  Was I ever?   Then, I thought I might devote it to the Central Park in Huntington Beach--anthropomorphizing some of the critters and giving each a topic to write about regularly--but I decided the topics were silly AND I didn't have time to write regularly. So, I'm changing themes yet again, and this time I'm going to see if I can keep it going with a "tree", or if necessary, a broader, "nature", theme.   Being a California girl, I thought it best to begin with a tree, that while not being a State tree, is none-the-less, frequently associated with California (and Florida, but that's beside the point), the palm. This particular image is the view I had from my North facing 3rd floor office in the Chapman University Law School, where I was...