Pictures of pollens.

It is pollen season down here. A representative photo of my car:

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And a close-up:

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It rained last weekend, so this is about five days' worth of buildup. The past two years, I've seen all the multitudinous trees in my neighborhood bloom, and thought, "Ah, so many trees! How I love living here!"

And then the oak and pine trees start this, and I think, "Ah, so many trees! How I hate living here!"

(Okay, the pollen isn't too bad, since this year I wised up and started taking a daily dose of generic Claritin/loratadine back at the end of February in order to let it build up in my body. I am snot free for the first April in my life and it is glorious. And even on the car, the only real annoyance is having to use my wipers/wiper fluid to clean a swath off the windshield before I go anywhere, which eventually gums up the wipers until I get the worst of it off with a paper towel. Still, trees, you could stop this any day now...)