Fluff

[icepixie]

The cottonwood trees are especially cottony this year. I was driving around near West End on a McKay trip, and it honestly looked like snow flurries coming down (or perhaps like there had been a terrible accident at a down comforter factory). No exaggeration. I don't think we get it as badly as some places in the midwest, because I rarely see drifts, but it's definitely in the air.

Every year, the cottonwoods sending out their seeds coincides with something that plays merry hell with my allergies. I think it's grass, because while oak (which starts in March) does me in, the twenty-four-hour pills generally allow me to breathe. But they don't touch whatever this stuff is. Ugh. Note to self: move to a city or town that doesn't lie in a basin.

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Incredible pictures of the Mississippi floods. Wow. I'm impressed at the ring dykes some people have put up!

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[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

We don't generally have problems with cottonwoods until later in the summer. Trying to keep our pool clean is practically sisyphean. (It is our state tree, after all. UGH, THANKS KANSAS. YOU PICKED A WINNER.)

[icepixie]

We only really get their floof in May...I guess they must bloom earlier here because it's warmer. Thankfully, we don't have that many!