It's a 10 tissue day

[bill_schubert]

I rate my daily walks this time of year based on how many kleenex's (actually puffs... my nose is sensitive) I have to bring with me.  Here is what today looks like:

My two favorite sensitivities are cedar and mold

The wind kicked up yesterday and knocked all the pollen into the air.  The cedar is not really cedar and the mold is not actually mold.  They are both mesomeres.  But my respiratory system likes neither.

Off to walk with a pocket bulging with tissue.

Comments

[barefoot-soul.livejournal.com]

Is that because of all the snow/moisture you got lately?

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

The mold is not really mold, it is something called 'dry mold' and has little to do with wet weather. The Cedar is not really cedar, it is really Juniper and pollinates this time of year. In both cases it is the wind that causes the problems. It was very windy over the past couple of days and the air is full of the pollen knocked off the trees and kicked up from the ground.
It is just time of year. The Juniper pollination will end in a couple or three weeks and then we'll just be back to the usual grass and oak and mold.
I saw a chart last year that showed the months without allergy causing pollutions in central Texas. There were NONE. It is all year every year. The state does its best to rid itself of people and succeeds in only making us miserable.

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Holy crap!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, the more the wind blows, the worse the cedar is but the shorter the season.