Malibu morning picture of the day - Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Dear Family, Friends, and Gentle Readers,

Once again, a clear, blue day on the coast. Winds are still this morning.

It may be hard to see, but this is the visual span between Catalina on the left and Santa Barbara Island right at the margin on the right. There is an interesting zig-zag pattern on the water at the right. Probably a large sea serpent just underneath, don't you think? Heading out after feeding on a surfer?

There is no worthy second look today. Everything looks like the above.

Revisiting a topic I touched on yesterday, here is an interesting link to a story about the palm trees of Los Angeles from our local public TV station KCET. It covers  the exposition event I alluded to related to the planting of many palm trees, the L.A. 1932 Olympics. They report it was a make-work effort for the city's unemployed started in 1931, just happening to coincide with the Olympics. How legends develop!

Beverly Hills, Canon Drive, about 100 years ago...

If you don't care to read local history, here's a picture from that website of Beverly Hills, early in the 20th century, yet to be developed with young palm trees planted. This is Canon Drive.

If you've been to BH, you know that all these modest houses are now gone, replaced with great mansions.
However, a lot of the palms remain. In the picture below, the tall, skinny ones with the small heads are probably some these that you see here that have made it to old age.



By the way, when the old palm trees fall over, the city does not replant palms.

They put in something a bit more suited to the climate and which will provide more shade. The ones they put in front of my house are tabebuia trees. When they are mature they will look like this.

A tabebuia tree, I think this is color flower ours produces...

They went in the year that my eldest grandchild was born, 2011, so we call them the "Eleanor Tree" and the "Josephine Tree," bearing both of her names. They flowered for the first time this last spring. Right now, they just look like 7-foot branches that are unable to stand on their own. How these things grow in the wild I have no idea. I will not probably live long enough to see them look like this, Who knows what the next owners of the house will do either?



That's all for today. Have a wonderful Tuesday.

Love,
Pops