January 14, 2023 Windmill Palm at the Beach

[envira-gallery id='13940'] Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) originally came from tropical and temperate mountain regions in China. In the wild, it usually grows 6 to 12 m tall. When cultivated, it only grows 2.5 to 3 m . Its leaves resemble a windmill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8x_4lqX9Vs

Reading: No One Is Talking About This

North Vancouver City Library Adult book club January book Excerpts A hundred years ago you would have been mining coal and had fourteen children all named Jane,” she often marveled, as she watched a man stab a finger at his wife in front of the Keurig display. “Two hundred years ago,...