Tag: california

  • A Little Water, a Lot of Sun – What the Desert Grows

    If you didn’t grow up in or around California’s Imperial Valley, the hay stacks can seem a little strange. You drive out into the middle of the desert, where the landscape is supposed to be sand, creosote and tumbleweeds, and suddenly there they are—great golden walls of hay stacked beside the fields like somebody has…

  • The Thing About Palm Trees

    Palm trees grow in warm places all over the world, but somehow they got branded as California’s signature accessory — like aviator sunglasses for the landscape. They aren’t even native to most of the state. The tall, spindly Mexican fan palms that define so many skylines were imported by the thousands in the early 1900s,…