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FWIW, my wife and I lived for years in walking distance to a large park, one sector of which had trees seemingly *only* of the cottonwood variety. I'd never encountered them before. But my learning came the hard way, as that glorious "snow" they'd fill the park with in spring also provoked my reddened eyes to a kind of wateriness I could scarcely see through.
And, yet, when *isn't* life like that: providing a stupendous, newly encountered glory poised to deliver a hard slap on the back of the head...?
The sun shines only on the eyes of man but through to the heart of a child, eh? This cottonwood in particular was magnificent, but there are plenty of great ones in the area, too. This guy is a monster, visible from pretty far away even in the dense forest.
I've found some of my favorite head slaps come from macro photography. Wait, you mean that little anonymous green schmear on the ground is actually a complex flower??