A Cardon Remembered

In 1989 I visited Ma at Los Cerritos beach (I was 24 years old).  There was a huge cardone in the trailer park, and before leaving I took pictures of it. Here is one of Ma standing in front of it with Gilly, her poodle.

This is how I prefer to remember the big cardone.  It has been toppled and the top cut off.  I looked like Hurricane Odile blew it over, but I am sure if not weakened from the surrounding human activity/development, it would still be standing today. 

 My most favorite picture on Ma walking Los Cerritos beach in 1989 - She had only been there a few months, and was going to return to the states, but family kept coming down to visit. 

Mary Gunn