PUSSY-WILLOWS IN WINTER

Found along  the path in the botanical garden. I think I've identified it correctly, slim, twisting branches ending at these little cotton puffs. You don't see them in this country much these days. However, they were always in florist shops in NYC when I was a kid. My mother loved to get some straighter stems and arrange them in a vase. I ran my fingertips across buds over and over.