I took a road trip over the weekend. On Monday, I drove NINE AND ONE HALF hours to get home. (It was worth it.) I might tell you about the trip in another blog entry, but this entry is to tell you about a curious thing. On Highway 99, north of Fresno but south of Madera, in the median is something that marks the center of California. It is a palm tree on the south side and a pine tree on the north! Someone showed me this a few years ago and then I couldn’t find it again. (My husband thought I just dreamed it.) Yesterday I stopped at a Starbuck’s in Chowchilla (I was dying of boredom by that time) and the server was chatty and helpful and told me about this! She brought it up, not me! Isn’t that cool?? here is the very blurry photo I took while driving (I think the big rig on my six was a little irritated at me – I’m sorry, Mr. Peterbilt)
The pine isn’t very large and is behind the palm because we are heading north.
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Jana – When I first moved to Cal . going on 32 years now, I heard about the Pine and Palm marking the dividing line between Northern and Southern California. The reason the pine is smaller is that it fell a few years ago and was re planted. Can’t tell you how long this has been there as a marker or who originally placed it ? Sounds like a ask it letter , Who is the woman that has that column in the Fresno Bee ??? I’ll have to see if I can write her ! – M
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