Cattails

So the other day we were out for a walk and found a small stream with cattails growing all around the banks. They were just giving off their seeds and there were hundreds of fluffy, white, cottony, floaties everywhere. If you pick up a cattail that's ready to seed then all you have to do is touch it and it bursts into a huge puff three times as big as the cattail was. And then the slightest little breeze will send them flying. The problem is that once they get on your clothes or in your hair they are impossible to get out. But it sure was fun. Dalin, being the wonderful big brother that he is, came and piled them on Braden's head. Braden thought it was hilarious until they got in his mouth and then he didn't like that too much. It reminded me of "The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" when Linus jumps into a pile of leaves with a sucker in his hand and comes out with leaves all over his mouth and sucker. That's what Braden looked like. The pictures just don't do it justice.