Monthly Archives: June 2012

when the cotton starts to fly

There’s a female cottonwood tree a few doors down, and the cotton is flying, and landing everywhere. Last year I had cottonwood trees sprout in the rain gutter, and didn’t even notice it until the trees were a foot tall. … Continue reading

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which came first?

“You must have been a very weird child”, my wife used to say when I started worrying about things like this, but really, which came first, orange the fruit, or orange the color? The fruit probably came from China, like … Continue reading

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