Looks Like Snow But Isn't *Achoo*

It's that time of year again, when the cottonwood trees demonstrate how they got their name.

( Makes my eyes water just looking at it )

When the wind comes up (as happens quite often here), the air fills with cottonwood seeds, looking like a snowstorm but making my eyes itch like crazy. Yesterday we had a brief thunderstorm that tamped down the pollen a bit, but it's heating up again, so we can expect a new storm of itchy seed pods any time now.