Fhelsing's Fotothing

visiting Old Town, #1
San Diego, California

Monday, January 29, 2007

The Old Town area in San Diego is a California State Park, and there are a lot of museums, historical monuments, shops, historical buildings, and gardens to explore. It's a tourist-oriented area, but it's interesting, too.

These palm trees are near the entrance to the State Park.

I didn't know this for a long time, but there is only one kind of palm tree that is native to Alta California. The so-called California Fan Palm grows wild in only a very small part of the desert area in Southern California and in Baja California, Mexico.

The Canary Island Palm and other kinds of palm trees were introduced by the Europeans who settled Alta California. They also brought the Mexican Fan Palm northward.