A Mexican fan palm, photo by Mark Tulin

Palm Trees in California

A symbol of a life in transition

Mark Tulin
SNAPSHOTS
Published in
3 min readJun 13, 2021

When I look up into the clear blue and see a palm tree, I know I’m no longer living in Philadelphia. There were rarely clear skies. It was usually overcast, with frequent showers or snow squalls. And once in a while, I’d see a palm tree, but they were plastic and usually outside of a gas station or a Hawaiian restaurant. Today, looking into the sky, the palms are…

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Mark Tulin
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A California writer/photographer whose dreams are more vivid than his waking life. Poetry, Humor, Sexuality, and Fiction — https://crowonthewire.com