Summer Snow

On the way to work this morning, I was out in the backyard and noticed this. I think it’s from a Cottonwood tree?

The seeds were falling all around yesterday, while Liz was working in the yard after work. She said at one point, it felt like watching snow falling.

The weird thing is: I don’t remember this at all, from last year or the year before that. Maybe it’s because we never really had a clean backyard, until a year ago.

Hard to tell where it’s coming from, but it’s blanketed our whole street (lots of small piles of the cottonwood seeds, in the street and along the sidewalk).

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