JasonFleischer's Journal: Follow the yellow brick road

I woke up this morning to find the city (well, OK at least Del Mar and La Jolla) buried under a coating of yellow pollen. My car, normally white, has golden filligree all over, and certain bits of sidewalk and corners of entryways are buried under the sulfur-colored mess. Around work there are some rough slate-like paving stones, and they've come out looking like they were dry-brushed with sandstone. Somebody told me that this is from the pine trees, and I assume that they mean the Torrey pines, since I've lived around large concentrations of other sorts of pine most of my life and never experienced anything like this.