June 8

Today the wind blew the pines, and a sheet of yellow covered the roads, the puddles, the shores, the cars, just like yellow paint, or mustard dust.

Sneezing got worse, sniffles increased, eyes itched, and still the yellow dust blew.

A few years back, when I had a microscope, I gathered the yellow stuff in a jar of water and put a drop on a glass slide to look at under a 100x ocular lens.

This is what it looks like. Eegads! This is what's in my nose and eyes?? Pine pollen!

At least they don't have spikes.