Snow in June

Daydream / I fell asleep amid the flowers / For a couple of hours / On a beautiful day
—Wallace Collection, “Daydream”

Every year in Montreal, sometime between late May and early June, it snows—sometimes for days on end. The flakes come from the cottonwood poplar (Populus deltoides). Get anywhere near one and the air fills with tiny seeds carried by long, silky threads.