It is definitely spring because we are slowly getting buried in yellow dust.
This vehicle has been sitting still for several days. Just so you know --
the car has shiny black paint job.
This time of year you can tell who parks in a garage and who doesn't by the tell-tale thickness of the pollen layer...
Be careful what you touch...
And that works in reverse. At some point, Eli must have touched the side of my car with his snack-greasy hands. Now the pollen is sticking to the residue...
The smoked glass top of our landlord's patio table...
If you pour a little water on things, the pollen swirls...
It even floats in clumpy rafts...
Here is the main culprit -- the pine trees.
Don't believe it? Just give a branch a shake...
But there are so many other things blooming right now, that I swear sometimes the very air has a yellowish-green haze.
I'm sure by next year the pollen will be annoying. Even if you don't get hay fever, after a while it feels like it sticks in your nose! But after four years away from Georgia, clouds of spring pollen flying when the wind blows makes me shake my head in amazement and wonder. And thankfully there are heavy rains predicted tonight to help wash the world clean again.
Click HERE for a good page for kids about pollen.
Click HERE for information about local pollen counts.
Growing up in the Hudson Valley, I know that pollen can be quite annoying. But Georgia pollen must cause a lot of distress for those with allergies. And yet, as you stated and photographed so beautifully, there are exquisite rewards that pollen brings to us.
Posted by: anjahni | 11 April 2013 at 11:45 AM
Thanks, Anjahni!
Posted by: Valerie J. Frey | 11 April 2013 at 07:45 PM