Poplar Buds

Poplar Buds
Originally uploaded by mmfranke.

Here's an attempt at getting a close-up of the poplar buds themselves. It's hard to explain what it's like to walk around in a blizzard of these little "snowflakes." Imagine yourself in a cloud of dandelion seeds. You find yourself wiping your face a lot, because they're constantly hitting you in the face. I've only actually inhaled one or two (I think), and it's not fun. But they get into everything.