Photography and Palm Trees

I have always loved taking photographs and can't remember a time when I didn't own a camera - firstly an ancient Box Brownie and then for most years of my childhood an Instamatic 100. I am not particularly technically-minded (I can hear the loud chorus of hysterical laughter from those who know me) but you may remember that, when I was in Barcelona a few weeks ago, I hit on Daphne's Theory of Photography and it is this:

ANY PHOTOGRAPH LOOKS BETTER WITH A PALM TREE IN IT

(there might be an exclusion clause for ones taken at the North or South Poles, but otherwise I think it's pretty universal)

Here are some palm trees in Barcelona:

Here in Florida there are lots of different kinds but they all have those cheery tops like little explosions, rather like that Manchester sculpture The B of the Bang.

Has anyone ever said "Palm trees! They're just so depressing, aren't they?" I don't think so. I can't look at them without smiling.

Also, of course, there could be something in the theory that the places where palm trees are found tend to make me smile too.