Vladimir Filonov / MT

Two women in a pukh-covered park, one sneezing and one losing herself in summer-snowy thought.

As if taunting Muscovites who are celebrating the brief respite from winter, Moscow's pukh — white seeds shed by flowering trees — falls like snow for at least a month at the beginning of each summer. For those with allergies, this season can be torturous, while others with more mischievous tendencies enjoy setting large clumps of the stuff on fire and watching it spread. Either way, it's a reminder to the city that something is always falling from the sky. As the city slips into full summer mode, staff photographer Vladimir Filonov shares some of this season's pukh-related images.