Four Palms Size:Gallery 137 feet at the head

137 feet at the head of the Capitol Creek Valley southwest of Aspen — one of the Elk Mountains' six fourteeners

Its southwest coast runs miles of pale beach from Agios Prokopios south through Plaka to Mikri Vigla

and distinctly California energy to any space

Arthur caught a low-cloud morning when the ridges break above the deck and the alpine tundra reads bare and brown against the sky

noseriding approach to the wave here

Four Palms Size:Gallery 137 feet at the headFour Mexican fan palms in silhouette against an L. A. sunset the species that lines the boardwalks of most of the coast, planted in long rows by the city in the early twentieth century. Almost none of California's palms are actually native to California. Alex frames four trunks against a sky going through peach, lavender, and rose, the lower fronds in the foreground reading nearly black.