My new neighbor has a cottonwood tree in his back garden. It’s
not entirely his fault. It was there before he moved in. But the last two
residents ignored their yard; this one is watering like mad. All that extra water
has made his trees – especially the drought-tolerant cottonwood – grow like
weeds. For the past two weeks, the tree has been “snowing” in my back garden. Two
small dogs and every stray breeze keep carrying it into the house. I’ve been
dusting and vacuuming, but I just can’t keep up. The bad news is this cottonwood
fluff is extremely flammable. It’s sort of like Mother Nature is dousing us
with kerosene just in time for fireworks season. The good news is the trees
really only dump fluff for about two weeks, so we should be nearly done for
this year. And cottonwood only lives about fifty years. So, we’ll only have to
go through this forty-four more times!
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