Cal! the cops!

[Hoserman]

Went to get the tractor and for a split second I thought someone stole my 2380 and replaced it with a Cub Cadet. It was YELLOW! Or so it seemed. Fact is it was yellow from all the pine pollen that had settled on it. I really hate that stuff, gets into everything. Didn't even start it, instead I promptly removed the air cleaner filter and yep it had a lot of pollen on it. Blew it out then moved the machine over where I could wash it off. Back to orange again.

 

[RCW]

My truck is just covered in pollen. We've had a ton of rain too.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

What a great country! Pine pollen season was over down here over a month ago. We're well into tornado season now .

 

[Hoserman]

Tornados, I'll keep the pollen.

 

[arml]

True story from a few years ago....I was mowing my field on a rather warm windy day, made a turn and, I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be puffs of smoke coming from my neighbors barn. I quickly drove over there and saw they were not home...puffs of smoke kept emitting from the barn.....so I did what I thought was the right thing to do...called the fire dept.....they were here in 5 minutes. They checked everything out...no fire. Turns out it was pollen from a large pine tree being blown over the roof....intermittent. Fire Chief said to me, you did the right thing...better safe than sorry.....I went back to my mowing....head hung. Oh well.

 

[GeoHorn]

Canoeing on the Guadalupe River NW of San Antonio at a place known as “Mo Ranch” (Presbyterian Church Retreat property)…. wife and I were just gliding-along on calm water…. when a cedar tree (actually a western red juniper but all us locals call it “cedar”)…. that beautiful green cedar tree abruptly DIsappeared-in-a-CLOUD of SMOKE! The light breeze slowly drifted the cloud away…and there stood that beautiful green cedar just as it was before. It had in one moment discharged All it’s pollen into the atmosphere.

Made me think of the “burning bush” bible story.… It certainly Looked Like a tree that had suddenly erupted in a huge conflagration….and then survived without injury.