Pix of pollen
We are getting a small amount of welcome rain this morning (which is forecast to continue for the next several hours). When I looked out at our drive I noticed that where the water was puddling against some fallen leaves there was yellow scum around. This immediately took me back to Spring orienteering in pine forests when one's car would be covered with pine pollen. We don't have any pine trees upwind of where this was occurring but there are a good number of flowering Acacia dealbata . Given the apparently unwarranted reputation of Acacias for causing much of the Hay Fever I was inclined to attribute the scum to them but there is a lot of evidence around that Wattle pollen is not spread by wind. We do have a lot of grass upwind, but I'm not aware of it flowering at present, so in short I am blowed if I know what the scum is. Frances has a digital microscope so I sucked up a specimen of gooze and dropped it on a slide. After a small amount of f...