March 9: Pollen, goldfish

The pollen isn't as thick as the Dust Bowl yet, and we've been lucky to have periodic rains that have settled it and washed some of it away. But it's working up steam, to use an inept metaphor. It has to be washed off of windshields or you can't see well to drive, it collects in swirls and clumps on standing water, and it sifts into windows to form a yellow layer of dust on windowsills. It's both oak and pine, mostly.


In this picture it's the yellow line along the waterline of the pool.

Since I've shown a picture of "my" fish here, taken a few days ago, I'll send out a little bit of hope to the universe that they're doing okay. Today when I stopped in to the office, I noticed that the pool was drained for cleaning. I always worry when that happens that some of the goldfish won't survive the transition, or that one day the maintenance workers will just find it too much trouble to keep them alive at all.