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

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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 occasionally, I’d see a palm tree, but they were plastic and usually outside a gas station or a Hawaiian restaurant. Today, looking into the sky, the palms are real and…

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Mark Tulin
SNAPSHOTS

I escaped a therapy career to follow a dream. Poetry, Humor, Sexuality, Doodler, and Storyteller — https://crowonthewire.com