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Trip to the Inland Empire, California

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Traveled to my old place of residence a week ago Sunday.

Back in 1986 I moved to Highland, just east of the city of San Bernardino, in San Bernardino county.

First, an ad for Corona Beer in 7-11, in La Habra, as I bravely sally forth.

On my sortie.

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Here's White Park, RIverside.

Kinda cool.

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Jube, and crown of same. About 100 years old.

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Araucaria bidwillii, I think. Bunya-bunya.

Also about 100 years old. Tall.

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Base of trunk with the Shoe. American size 13, 12.5", 32 cm long.

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My hand for scale on sprout on trunk, shows leaves.

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Gaze up into the crown, along the trunk.

This here's a big tree, kiddies. A real big-[bottomed] tree.

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Cork (rhymes with dork) oak.

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Close up of trunk.

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With the Shoe.

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The Tweety-Pie Plant, known as Calliandra tweedii.

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Take heed, lest thee offend the powers that be . . .

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Pair of Jubes, that one on the right looks sho' nuff funky . . .

Pruned by a tree trimmer on LSD?

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Same tree by itself. (Its "twin" is the one in first post. Much nicer.)

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Sister cities of RIverside

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Porno theater right next door. Didn't go inside. Can't review, sorry.

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Here's a green McDonald's in Riverside. The canopy is solar panels.

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Entrance. Went inside to poop. It wasn't green.

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I rented this house in 1990-1992 in Riverside, just uphill from the University of California, Riverside. Spent the first night of the great freeze of 1990 in the back screened in porch. (In a downy sleeping bag, brrrr.)

Those queen palms were all planted as 1 gallon plants in about 1991.

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Roared off to San Bernardino. The Final Frontier. Next stop, the desert, high or low, take your pick.

Here's a typical home and garden in the flatland areas. Riverbottom silt. Rich as [fill in your name]. Best soil, ever, period. Ancient Egyptians will concur. So will modern ones. If you can't garden here, you are probably already dead.

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Used to live here. It really is the end, of my time in San Berdoo.

Gophers up the wazoo. Or, wazai?

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Over all is the mountains.

Yeah, yeah, up north they have the Sierras. But still, we ain't in Ohio no more, huh-uh.

Note the snow on top. In the evenings, the snow covered tops blaze in the fire of the setting sun, while the valley is wreathed in dark shadows below. Okay, so I use that a lot. If you saw, you would, too.

Every place else I've lived in California, the mountains were far off in the distance. Here, they were right there.

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Here's the first house I owned in California.

I hate that concrete, but the guy left the palms. They were planted the day after I moved in, before I unpacked, or put the new seat on the john.

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did you plant those queens as 5 gals?

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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My old house was at the base of the Bunya Mountains, the only place in the world where the Bunya Pines grow naturally. I used to love getting up in the rainforest and collecting the enormous cones from them. The 'nuts' inside the cones are delicious. It was a great place to take visitors to see as well. Also if you took some bird seed and held in your open hand, the lovely King Parrots and Crimson Rosellas would fly down out of the forest and sit on your arms and eat the seed. Now you have me all nostalgic.

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did you plant those queens as 5 gals?

Yes, I did.

Gnarly old ones that needed a home in the ground right then. The rest is history. Or rapid growth.

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Been there, done that. 18 miles and 2.5 hours of traffic later all too happy to be back in the middle of the O.C.

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