Who Wants a Date?

For the Brits that read this site I have a question. Have you ever wondered where dates (small sticky fruit that comes in an oval shaped box) come from? If you have, well here is the answer. These trees are date palms and are located in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County. Dates are such a big crop for this area that every year the County holds a Date Festival in the nearby city of Indio. The date palms you see in this photograph were located next to Highway 111 between Mecca and Indio. I was driving past and thought it would make a good photograph, so I turned around and went back to get this one.