I wanted to capture the release of the cottonwood fuzz

in Calgary. This is a yearly event although it is not as

common as it used to be. Cottonwood were planted

as a hardy tree along city streets. As other varieties

became available the city began to discourage planting

cottonwoods they are messy, not long lived and they

drop a lot of limbs in the wind storms. I was raised

near the Lake Erie where in the summer you sometimes

 get drifts of Fish Flies or May Flies so this seems

fairly harmless and a lot less smelly.

Even though it is not snowing I thought a quote

from Frozen Fire by Floris Clark McLaren

1937 would work besides I just got my copy 

in the mail today and wanted to use it.

" Against the blue of spruces, and the grey

Of bare-boughed poplar suddenly

As though a snowdrift burst in

scattering fragments."

                      Frozen Fire 

                           Floris Clark McLaren