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Article: Snow showers? No, just the cottonwoods'Summer snow showers' rain from cottonwoods
- Article from:
- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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I thought God was playing a trick on me during my first Kansas
summer.
Maybe he was trying to cheer me up knowing I really didn't want
to move from Chicago to Kansas, a place my friends said was flat,
hot and boring. They were right about the heat.
"Snow in June! That's a good one, God. What will you send
tomorrow? How about Polish neighbors who understand the importance
of serving Polish sausage with a side of sauerkraut at a cookout?"
Of course, it wasn't snow I had witnessed the first summer I
lived in Kansas. It was the eastern cottonwoods going to seed.
It was one of the most beautiful sights I'd encountered, next to
the blinding snowstorm in Chicago that closed school for nearly a
week.