So, it's official. I admit there is one thing I DO NOT like about living in North Carolina.
Tree pollen. It's absolutely everywhere. I'm not kidding. EVERYWHERE.
This is the one time of year I do not like having to be in and out of my car every five minutes. The yellow-green dust is so thick you can see it in the air and I cannot even think about how much of it I breathe in in the course of a day.
It's in the driveway...
On the grill...
On the woodpile...
On the deck...
In the bird bath...
On my cat...
Did I mention my poor cat....
Thank goodness it is a short lived issue. I'll forget all about it when the azaleas are in bloom. Please excuse me now...I need to go take a shower....and rinse off my cat.
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I sent Charita Cadenhead to your post. She has the same problem in Birmingham, AL.
Looks like the problem I will have in mid maythrought he end of may.
Oh what we have to suffer through for those beautiful spring blooms! Ragweed gets me the worst, but that's what I have to look forward to in a few months :)
Thanks Jane! Glad to know this isn't just an eastern problem...
William, seriously? In Minnesota? wow.
Lee & Carol, sadly there is a season for every allergy sufferer in the Carolinas! For me it is the mold/mildew of the winter months!
I moved here 2 years ago from Atlanta. Atlanta has the same problem, maybe worse. The problem is not as bad here at the beach. The only thing I can think of is because the wind blows so much that the pollen does not have a chance to build and blow out all at one time.
SarahGray,,,
We are choking here in Newnan. I haven't seen this much pollen in years!
Sarah you know it's really bad when animal come in looking like they've had a color treatment at the local salon.
SarahGray,
When I need a 4 wheel drive, or tire chains, to get through the pollen, and it is below freezing for the entire pollen season, I'm liable to head back to Pennsylvania!
Too funny. Heavy tree pollen is nothing to pussy foot around with. Ask your poor cat...
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We have the same issue up here in Pennsylvania -- but not for a few weeks . . .
Tom, I'm sure you are right about the wind at the beach...that and the kinds of trees are somewhat different!
Richard, yep...just heard it is 3 times worse this year than the last worse year (?!) in 2003!
Charita, I feel so bad for them especially when they must have to lick 10 lbs of it off themselves!
Mike...now there's a visual that I can totally relate to!
Bubba! Thanks for the feature...and the humor! ;-)
Richard, good luck with that. Maybe you'll need do have a little vaca down south in a few weeks!
SarahGray: Couple years back I visited Pinehurst in April. Absolutely fell in love with the area and told Marilyn we'd have to go back together ... only not in April. I sneezed, teared, coughed my way through my golf rounds. (I know ... poor Gene .. lol) It was the ONLY thing I could say negative about my beautiful trip. Otherwise, I talk about your lovely state still today ...
Gene
We are "eat up " here in Charlotte with our most pollenated spring in years. I'm feeling mellow yellow. A-Choo
Gene, come on back to Pinehurst in the fall...exquisite and BTW, I'm a mean golfer myself...another thing we have in common!
Claude, I'll be in Charlotte for a day in a week or so so I hope we've all gotten a rain bath by then! Yick!
SarahGray - I used to have the same darn problem when I lived in Flagstaff AZ amonst the pine trees. It drove me nuts! Just when you can have the windows open - in comes the green stuff!
SarahGray: You golf???? I definitely want to get back soon .. and as Marilyn is not a golfer ... I'd love to have you join me on the links ... MY treat! Sounds like I might get my tush beat out there tho ...
Gene