Feeling Green
You know those beautiful nature pictures in which everything looks so vibrant at first glance? Then you get to looking at things closer and you realize that not only are the trees green, but so is the sky and the water and anything else that might be present in the picture. I first learned about such filters when my dad helped me with my photography endeavors for the regional ACE convention.
Currently everything in the Chattanooga area is covered with a similar green haze, just as if you had green contact lenses or a green camera filter. You wake up in the morning, and your car is covered with a green layer of tree pollen. So is the road around my apartment. The pollen is so thick in the air that you can almost chew on it. Fortunately I don't suffer from allergies.
Yes, spring has arrived here and it is wonderful. I recently put flower pots back outside. This weekend I'll be putting the garden in. I probably should have done it last week with as warm as its been this week.
I don't recall pollen like this when I was a kid in Ontario. I guess the birch and poplar trees were too intent on getting on with energy storage before the next deep freeze that they invested their energy in leaves more than in flowers and pollen. Instead of the pollen turning everything green, we had the wonderful army worm. Millions of those little buggers would appear, munching their way through everything green in sight. They created a dilemma for people like my youngest sister who were too squeamish to walk on a living critter. You could actually hear the sound of them popping as you drove down the road.
I guess given the choice between pollen and worms, I'd take pollen.
Currently everything in the Chattanooga area is covered with a similar green haze, just as if you had green contact lenses or a green camera filter. You wake up in the morning, and your car is covered with a green layer of tree pollen. So is the road around my apartment. The pollen is so thick in the air that you can almost chew on it. Fortunately I don't suffer from allergies.
Yes, spring has arrived here and it is wonderful. I recently put flower pots back outside. This weekend I'll be putting the garden in. I probably should have done it last week with as warm as its been this week.
I don't recall pollen like this when I was a kid in Ontario. I guess the birch and poplar trees were too intent on getting on with energy storage before the next deep freeze that they invested their energy in leaves more than in flowers and pollen. Instead of the pollen turning everything green, we had the wonderful army worm. Millions of those little buggers would appear, munching their way through everything green in sight. They created a dilemma for people like my youngest sister who were too squeamish to walk on a living critter. You could actually hear the sound of them popping as you drove down the road.
I guess given the choice between pollen and worms, I'd take pollen.
posted by The Mad Hatter at 6:41 PM
5 Comments:
When you said, "I don't recall pollen like this in Ontario," I thought, "But in Ontario everything was gray with army worms." And then you went on to elaborate on the same. Those things were horrible. I'd take pollen any day too. You don't have to hold your collar tight when you walk out the door for fear pollen will drop down your neck. Shivers.
Ugg, the memories! I'd take pollen any day, also, even though my allergies are acting up worse with my pregnacy. They say that all the tress will pollenate all at once this year, instead of alternately. Maybe that's why it's so bad.
I definately prefer the pollen too! Unfortunately we have both. Well, the worms aren't quite as populace as in Ont. but last spring they were a little too plentiful here. Of course, you gotta have something to break up the sheer beauty of Georgia!!!!
Okay, forget the *populace* word. Too much nyquil. Make that *plentiful*.
MLou
hanser, i am beginning to regret that i ever told you that the blog was made for man and not man for the blog.
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