After the party

Today was mostly taken up with my Mom’s 90th birthday, but Eva and I fit in a walk before the party and we came across this abnormal double cattail standing tall and proud along the shores of Lake Vadnais in St. Paul. I am a bit mesmerized by this guy. In my world, it’s a keeper. I will hold onto this specimen until all the seed fluff has exploded and escaped into my house. At which point I will release him/it back into the wild with his brothers. Don’t you wonder what my house looks like?

abnormal over-wintered cattail seed-head in March