Sometimes I get obsessed with certain things I want to paint. Palm trees always fascinate me. I wonder why they evolved in the first place. To a midwest gal, palm trees are always going to be strange and mysterious and weird even though they have been part of my daily life since I was in my early teens. I expect anyone raised in a desert without any hardwood trees probably feels the same about oak trees.
Canon G7X Mark II, palm tree.
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Around Palm Springs, the palm trees are beautiful. They aren’t easy to maintain in a yard though. My friend had six of them taken out.
Thanks, Anne! Palm trees seem like weeds around here – I have to keep pulling them out of them sidewalk cracks and flower pots.
Yikes! I don’t remember that from living in the San Fernando Valley!
Anne – I think it is a palm that is generally short, and thus often in gardens. Then it spreads to creeks and sidewalk cracks and makes a mess. I find them in my flowerpots. It could be something more recent than when you lived in the Valley.