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August 26, 2007 by bipolarlawyercook

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2 Responses to “Cattails”

on August 28, 2007 at 4:01 am1 J Morgetron

I like cat tails. I don’t know why, but I’ve like them since I was little.

I think they grew near my grandparents house. I think they did, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

Your post brought back a peripheral memory. I can’t quite put my finger on it … Weird.
on August 31, 2007 at 12:47 am2 BipolarLawyerCook

Morgy, I love them too, but I have a different memory of them. The ground around the central rotary leading in and out of the town where I grew up was undeveloped marsh when I was a kid, and every time we drove by, there’d be mile-high cattails waving in the breeze. They were a nice counterpoint to the Liquid Natural Gas tanks on the other side of the road. Every fall, the Fire Department would do a controlled burn after the cattails started to fuzz and fly. So my memories of cattails also smell of smoke.