Thursday, June 11, 2020 Pollen Clouds

I had just taken a photo of this beautiful red protuberance on an evergreen tree when my husband pointed out that these release pollen. Say no more. My daughter and I lingered, taking photo after photo, me with camera in hand and her shaking the plump little pollen-stuffed pillows. It was harder than you might think to get a good photo of the phenomenon and the activity became quite addicting. The rest of our group wandered on without us, while we kept saying, “Let’s just take one more. Oh, that was a good one! Let’s do another!” The pollen even settled like glitter on a spider’s web. It was a good day.

Pollen Haiku
Billow’d pollen clouds
Catch the sun’s light, and ride on
Gossamer highways.

Could you bear to delete this in the morning?

P. S. It turns out that those are male cones that release pollen.