It's So Yellow Out Here

A perfect pollen storm today in my backyard...

A Weather Channel tweet yesterday put the pollen count in Atlanta at 5063.  "Extremely High" is anything over 150.

Hendersonville is usually about 2-3 weeks behind Atlanta so we probably haven't seen the worst of it yet.

You Know It's Been Raining A Lot...

When you have mushrooms growing upside-down from a branch in your yard....

We've had several bumper crops of weird cool mushrooms this year--every color, size, shape. Stinky ones too....

It's That Time of Year

My nose begins to itch, my eyes get watery, & my head swims with congestion. Yep, tree pollen time. It starts around Hendersonville in February & goes straight through till May.

The area we live in gives us a great diversity of plants & trees & all manner of growing things--most of which produce some sort of pollen. After the initial onslaught of tree pollen I can look forward to all manner of plants that will clog up my sinuses & make me miserable from the neck up.

I'm told to stay out of the outdoor air, keep my car windows closed, dry clothes inside in a dryer, etc., but how can a person live here in Western North Carolina & not go outside to enjoy the weather? That's one of the prime reasons for living here.

So it's medicate or be miserable for me.

Weather.com lets you check the pollen count by zipcode. It will even email you when the pollen count is getting mid-range to high.

Here's the link.

I Don't Care What The Groundhog Said...

Today's weather has been amazing. Right now it's 64 degrees : ) This time last week I was posting (aka bitching) about how cold it was. Today the windows are all open & my cats have been outside on the side porch for hours now. I know it will change & get cold again soon but it's been really great to have at least this one day of basically perfect weather.