It was our own special warm-weather snow, the cottonwood tree's fuzz, or seed pods, carried on the wind. The trees each produce thousands of drifting pods.

Eastern cottonwoods continue shedding innumerable seeds, which are being blown around by the wind on their cottony down. In April, as the cottonwoods were blooming, the big male trees shed large ...

The annual dropping of seed pods and blowing of fluff was much like it is every year only the lack of rain meant the stuff piled up. Like many Alaskans, I belong to an internet “service ...

Most years, cottonwood trees produce relatively few seeds, but occasionally they’ll see a masting year, which brings a drastic increase in seed production, and with it, a drastic increase in fluff.