Like old California..

What a wonderful park Stan and those alms are stunning love the shape. It's nice to see a bit of history added in there.

Thanks Penny. Where have you been? I hope well.
Darn that cold thing once again going around...

Your very welcome Stan. 😊 I ve been hibinating lol crocheting things for winter which I shall give to the homeless when I ve finished all of them also visiting my son in hospital as he has been seriously ill. Yes it has been cold here to with a bit of snow but more to come that has been forecast soon. So I won't be spending any time in my garden so I don't catch a cold.

Hello 3d...hello Stan! I've been hibernating too... snow drifts up to the tush and temps down in the double negatories! Stan, those palms delightful... old California? has California lost her palms? you've had lots of rain so far?

Hello Lori I hope all is well with you. I don't blame you hibernating our weather seems mild compared to what you have I don't know how you cope.

I think this could have been how things looked like in 1870,Lori.
Around the mid 50's the orchards were being taken down for subdivisions. Little houses made of ticky tacky..as Pete Seeger might have said.
Of course those little homes are now fought over tooth and nail and prices are for millionaires nowadays.

Beautiful picture. So sad to see the old leaving in most of the parks etc. You (me) have to be old to see so much change, but the young never did see so it's OK...I guess?

I think the only old growth forest still in existance in Eastern Canada is in the Agawa Canyon in west Ontario just north of Lake Superior.
The palms are so beautiful... The California of the Joad family and Pete's houses of ticky-tacky that all look just the same... I remember reading about a tree in Soucal that was (they figure) about 4000 years old and still living.. am I right? I know the redwoods are ancient too, but this one is in the middle of a town,, not in the White forest... I sure hate being this old...I lose facts so easily. Do you know what I'm talking about here? It's been named and I'm blessed if I can bring it to mind. Will have to try a search. The 4000 yr old is a Bristle Cone Pine named Methusela.

Methuselah is oldest so far. The oldest tree in town here,in Hayward, had been an 800 year old California Bay tree.
It was cut down a few years ago. Fools!

I think there are few wild Oaks in the 200 year plus still around. For now.