Yellow, What an Irritating Color!

Saturday was a good day for this time of year. I picked up my camera to go take a picture just for this blog and decided it was a waste of time. If you know what I'm talking about you don't need the picture and if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, then the picture couldn't come close to explaining the phenomenon.

For the past couple of weeks, everything outside has turned yellow or been effected by the yellow. My dark blue car looked green, white things were yellow and dark things were just icky. You could feel the grit on your face and hands and no matter how many times you wash, it always seems to be there. The grit was in your mouth and rinsing is something you do often. Make up is a joke for me because I wipe and/or wash it off almost immediately so I go without the color and stuff. I do moisturize a lot as well as use foundation to protect my skin from the grit and icky.

Now the "experts" will tell you that the yellow you see is pine pollen and it is too large to make you have an allergic reaction. Those of us that think those folks are insane deal with grit in the eyes, watering eyes, runny nose, coughing and sneezing. I only have one pine in my yard and tons of oaks and I think the oak trees are part of the problem too but what the heck, I'm not the expert - just the sufferer.

This brings me to why Saturday was so good. It rained. A nice steady rain that washed that nasty stuff into puddles that had the yellow floating on top and not on my skin. Yippee! It's still too early to tell if the worst if over but I walked without tissues today. SIGH!