Looks like snow in June around here today! We’ve had a very dry start to the summer; perfect for the Cottonwood fluff to fly. Put your glasses on and you’ll see all those seed pods on the big trees and the airborne fluff. Add tree fuzz, clover flowers and dog hair to the lawn for a flash-forward to visions of the first snowflakes! I s’pose we are past the summer solstice so it is only a matter of a few short months before the real stuff falls…
The cottonwood tress around here are truly massive: They produce nasty sticky buds in early spring that stick to everyone’s shoes (don’t forget it’s an Alaskan custom to leave your shoes in the entryway please & thankyou), their roots bulge the lawn, then pop up saplings in unexpected places, they shade my garden, fly their fuzz so the seeds can germinate in my garden, we can’t cut them down without hitting the house, they don’t make very good firewood and I think they smell bad too! At least they gave me something to write about!
