Palm trees

Here are a series of palm trees done mostly in Florida late January & early February.  It was nice weather all the time we were there. We always do some errands with the family, as well as going with them on the school run, with the occasional traffic jam to go with it. But these local trips provide some opportunity to sketch trees that we do not see in Kansas!

Gas stops were another chance for some sketching of local trees.

              

  Some of these have a bit of explanation- some do not. Many are of the ubiquitous sabal palmetto- referred to as the cabbage palm I guess because in the early days they used to eat the knee high heads of young trees which resembled cabbage to a degree.  These trees are everywhere and take many shapes which are often dramatic visually. There are hundreds of other palmettos as well, some of which you seldom see.

You will have to forgive the occasional spelling error...