Thematic Photographic - look up

Carmi's challenge this week is to LOOK UP....

Here are two shots from a recent outing - I look up...and around and all I see is this:
(as Carmi says, "click to embiggen")

Remember...I said RECENT outing...as one or two weekends past. That stuff in the sky? It is NOT snow. It's "cotton" from the cottonwood trees. Cottonwood trees are very common here in Kansas...they grow tall and beautiful. But what I can not understand is the whole moulting of "cotton". This is the third summer I've spent here in Oz...granted, the 1st summer was half-way done when we got here, but still. I've NEVER seen this phenomena. On some days, it's utterly ridiculous. The edges of driveways and roadways look like they are lined with dandelion fluff on steriods...or a thin layer of snow. This stuff blows in EVERYWHERE. My garage looks like it's wearing day old scruff on the floor...so snowy and fluffy!

I'm wondering if this only occurs every few years....and one would have thought that with the immense winds we'd had with the tornado, that the cottonwoods would be done shedding...but nope, there's still big fluffy stuff everywhere....sigh.