Hay Fever
June 26, 1997
People with headaches. People with wheezles and sneezles. People with itchy eyes, so black and blue from rubbing and scratching that they look like Rocky the Raccoon.
You don't need the Weather Channel's pollen index to tell you what's going on here, you can see it on the roof of your car every morning or across the surface of your favorite pond: a fine, grayish-yellow film that looks like dust and is, only of a kind that you can't vacuum away.
It's pollen, and it comes, for the most part, from the pitch pines. This is one of the worst springs for pitch-pine pollen, and hay fever, in a while. God bless you.