Cattail Fight
January 25, 1998
All of Boulder City was busy preparing for Super Bowl Sunday when a group of enterprising joyseekers abandoned such mundane activity in pursuit of a higher form of entertainment. South of the Sewage Treatment ponds, where a damp trail snakes it's swampy way through the desert, cattails grow to magnificent heights. This sunny day found them in full, ripe glory, ready to burst.
 The culprits. A band of wild children foraging through the desert. Their message: Many parts of the desert plants are edible. (Don't believe everything a four-year-old tells you!) |
 With the help of several taller accomplices, the cattails were harvested. Carefully. Black may not have been the wisest clothing color choice for an afternoon such as this. |
 The fight begins! Using the cattails as swords, the children smacked them together accompanied by appropriate sound effects: spit, gag, sneeze.  | |
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| January in Nevada is not usually white, but on this afternoon it was. The bushes glistened with fluffy seeds and there was pleasure in walking through the strange ground fog. |  | ||
