Let it snow?

We are still enjoying the newness of having leaves on our trees. It was a long winter and a long, cold, wet spring. Our grass is green! Tulips, daffodils, forsythia, creeping phlox, and iris blooms have all come and gone from our yard. The Stella de Oro day lilies are beginning their summer of carefree color!

So what's all that white stuff floating around on the breeze? Oh, yeah. That's the seed of our state tree, the cottonwood (Populus deltoides marsh, recently adopted by Nebraska in 1972 after Dutch elm disease killed most of the American Elm that USED TO be our state tree...). It fuzzes up the lawn (see photo below!) and lays in little, cloudy drifts on roofs and next to our garage doors. And how in the world does it get in our house? There was some seed floating around above David's Quaker oatmeal this morn. Wish I could get a photo that would do justice to the stuff flying around outside. It really is pretty!

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