Pine Pollen

So far it doesn’t bother me physically, but it sure does make a mess of anything externally.

Back the last week of January we had a warm spell and the yellow dust made a slight appearance. Then it got cold, real cold for a few days, then it rained hard. The back driveway near the plant was littered with a mess of the pods from the pines that hold the pollen. Several weeks of warm weather went by and no new pollen appeared, so I thought that we had dodged a bullet.

Not so, last week the pine tree branches were filled with more of those pollen pods and they have now started to give away those fine little specks that give everything a yellow tint. I used the California Duster on the Miata Saturday before the MMC breakfast and by the time we finished eating pancakes there was a light coating.

Don\’t even ask about the Purple Whale, from being parked way out in the Valve Store’s parking lot, surrounded by pine trees, it is well covered in yellow.