SOLSC '26 Day Twenty-three: Spring highs, achoo!

 

Thirty-one days, thirty-one posts for the

Slice of Life Story Challenge.

Ah, spring in Central Texas!  Roses are blooming, trees are adorned with bright green leaves, wildflowers are appearing at roadsides.

Sideways pic of the knockout rose next to my house.

And everything is coated in a fine yellow dust.  Case in point, my car:

Note the dead junebug. Yep, here already, too.

Do other states run allergy counts and forecasts?  One of our more humorous local meteorologists, Avery Tomasco, has a few Facebook posts about the "very high" oak pollen count; here are my faves:

Photo from Avery Tomasco's Facebook page

Photo from Avery Tomasco's Facebook page

This comedian, specializing in Southern idiosyncrasies, pretty much nailed it, too:  https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FXvjN1fCe/

And we haven't even peaked yet!  I lived all over the world for the first third of my life, and never had allergy issues until moving here.  Not sure there's enough allergy meds in the world to fight the pollen levels we have here; may have to go back to wearing that stash of Covid masks I still have on hand.