Pictures of pollens.

[icepixie]

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



And a close-up:



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...)

Comments

[pezprez.livejournal.com]

The first pic I was like, yeah my car looks like that too. Then I saw the second pic and was like, err, no, actually, I don't have PUDDLES OF POLLEN built up in the corners. Liek, woah, don't die.

[icepixie]

Yeah, apparently it's the worst pollen season in ten years. (Although I thought last year was pretty bad, too.) Bleh. I thought about getting my car washed this weekend, but it'll just get covered again in less than a day, so what's the point? Too bad it's not supposed to rain for another week...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Literally every year my doctor tells me it's the worst allergy season in ten years. I find this trend rather terrifying.

[icepixie]

The plants are evolving. They will achieve dominance over us puny humans by making us so miserable with allergies we can no longer function.

(Except loratadine kind of foils their little plan. Ahhhhhh, sweet, sweet antihistamines!)

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Dude, you HAVE seen The Seeds of Doom, yes??

[icepixie]

I wasn't thinking of it when I wrote that, but yes, yes, I have. :D