Palm Trees

When I moved to Southern California I had never seen palm trees, which were not native to the cold northeastern U.S. where I spent the first twenty years of my life. I arrived in the darkness around 4:00am, and was initially fascinated by the abundance of palms, which I began seeing a couple hours after that first sunrise. Now nearly four decades later, I'm no longer fascinated by them, but I still pay them a certain amount of attention.

The photographs in this post were made on the first day of summer in 2009, at Fairmount Park in Riverside, California.