Spring has Flung

The azaleas are blooming!
The pollen is falling!
The inchworms are clinging!
The poplars are growing!
The dogwoods are flowering.
You know what that means........ 
IT'S SPRING!!!!!!
Hooray!

I went out this morning to take a bunch of pictures of it being spring. Then I found some fairies. Then I wrote about azaleas. I have those pictures prepared for today's post. I hope you enjoy the spring-ness of today's spring. To go along with the spring mood, I am possibly (again) adopting kittens after an interview. Their names are Luna and Lucas. Because the pictures did not load on the website, I only have small pictures for you today.

There they are. Lucas is on top. Luna is on the bottom. These are actually really nice cat names, so although we might be changing Lucas to Luca, or even just Luc, Luna will probably stay Luna.

I really do hope we get them today. If not, I hope I can buy a consolation book on the way to volunteering at Furkids this afternoon.

(Btw, as you've noticed, this post is very COLORFUL. I'm enjoying that. Opinions? Leave your color preferences for future posts in the comments!)

Okay, get ready for the spring pictures!

I actually have a ton more, but I figured I wouldn't bore you. 


Here's me against some azalea bushes.

That's me ENJOYING SPRING

I also have had a strawberry smoothie today. It was very good. Yum.

 Happy Spring everybody! Hope you don't have any inchworms on your clothes/bikes/helmets!
~Julia


P.S. Here's me as a fairy:

Yay!

Bless You

Today's flowers are making Atlanta history this week.
Not sure if you've noticed, but things might have been seeming a bit.... yellow, recently? Cars, bikes, sidewalks, streets, benches, plants, clothes, YOU? Coated in sticky yellow dust.
*sneeze sneeze*
This is called pollen. Plants use pollen to pollenate their seeds. Um.. duh. Well, what happens, is the sticky yellow dust flies around on bugs and wind and fertilizes the seeds of other flowers. Evergreens, obviously, do not find this necessary.
It's been especially yellow recently. That is probably because, since it is so warm so early, and since it was never even that cold, plants that usually bloom over a very spread out period of time are overlapping all together.
The previous record in Atlanta for pollen was made in 1999. 6 thousand particles per square meter. Sounds like a lot, huh?
Then yesterday.
8 thousand.
Then today.
9 thousand.
Tomorrow? Who knows?
I just hope you are not allergic, because you are in for a rough time....
*sneeze sneeze*