North Carolina Pollen

[Smiley]

Took the attached photo of the surface of the lake behind my house to graphically show why many of us in the Sandhills of Carolina are under the weather with asthma type problems.

The dock in the picture is approximately 7 meters (22 feet) long, so you can judge the size of the pollen coating the surface.

 

pollen in lake.bmp

[Nan]

Doesn't look good at all !!!!  Do they clear it out or leave it ?

[Smiley]

God puts it there, and He is responsible for removing it....it gradually washes downstream and/or bio degrades.  99% of it is pine pollen and since the pines stopped breeding about a week ago, almost all of it is now gone.  

[Star]

I get an error message when I click on the .bmp, but I want to look at your lake.

[TV_Tech]

We could not find the attachment you were attempting to view.

[Smiley]

It was there originally, It apparently went bye bye when they fixed the server to really upload programs.

I will repost if I can find the jpg.

[Nan]

Here you go, I had to download it and I had a feeling I saved it ... What is quite amazing is that I found it !!!

 

 

 

 

[TV_Tech]

wowsers, my hayfever is going nuts just lookin at that pic...

[Smiley]

The pine pollen is now gone, but the hardwoods an flowering bushes are putting out the microscopic pollen that really causes the allergy attacks.  my truck went from mustard yellow (pine pollen) to white after the last gully washer, to brown now with the nasty pollen.  

It has been a really bad spring for pollen.

[Stormy]

Saves on paint jobs ; )