2001-04-09

petermarcus: (Default)
2001-04-09 03:00 pm

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It's spring with a vengence here in Atlanta. 83 degrees and sunny, and everything is coated in pollen. The pollen count today is 3,397 (that's not a typo...Check Atlanta's Pollen Count!) A good chunk of that count is pine, which apparently is too big for human allergies.

There are drifts of yellow pollen everywhere. Every car, truck, and motorcycle is yellow. I saw a yellow dust devil in a parking lot a while ago -- normally dust devils in Atlanta are red because we have this brick-red clay instead of soil.

Walking outside is like walking through clouds of yellow chalk-dust. Eerie, and a little hard on the lungs and eyes.