Citrus!

Nothing big happened today, we kinda took it easy. We did go visit California Citrus State Historical Park. It's still a young park (established in 1993) that has a lot of great plans but still needs time to grow into itself. The idea is that it'll eventually resemble a complete citrus-production community circa 1880-1935 complete with an operating packing shed, laborers' camp, grower's home etc. The Visitor Center is a replicated citrus packinghouse:
Entrance - an old fashioned fruit stand:
I then successfully without a map found the Mother Tree (officially The Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree). This is the tree that most of the navel oranges we eat come from. They're all grafted from this one tree (it's seedless, so you can't just plant the seeds).
Parent Washington Navel Orange Tree, located on Magnolia at Arlington Avenue, Riverside, ca. 1902. View shows fenced tree, one of two received from Brazil via Washington, D.C. and sent to Riverside in 1873 or 1875. It was transplanted from Luther and Eliza Tibbets homestead, its original Riverside home, to its current location in 1902. Riverside is the birthplace of the navel orange (and a lot of the citrus farming out here) so this is way cool!